Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union: Residential Childcare, 1958–91 (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)

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Contents
List of figures
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Preface
Introduction
1 Policing deviance: criminalizing poverty through residential childcare in the post-Stalinist USSR
	Families, poverty, and social problems: children’s ways into care
	Child removal as a mechanism of policing deviance
2 Productivity and ‘defectology’: from a criminalization to a pathologization of deviance
	Socialist tradition and Stalinist legacy: collectivism, discipline, and control in education before the 1958 reform
	Reforming residential childcare (1958–1970s)
	The scientific groundwork of residential childcare: classification, disability, and medicalization
	Challenging the residential childcare system (1970s–1991)
3 Managing residential childcare: a strategy of containment
	Management at the local level: living and working conditions in Soviet residential childcare
	Factors of change: the impact of inspections, personal dedication, and political pressures
4 Life in care as a way of life?: children’s institutional experiences and the difficult after life of care
	An ‘institutional’ life with distinct social rules and structures
	Leaving the institution: disculturation and stigma
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index