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This innovative study examines the early years of the Red Army as
it developed from a revolutionary partisan force into a modern,
professional institution under the leadership of Mikhail
Tukhachevsky, an important and controversial figure in the politics
of the Stalin period. Sally Stoecker combines her institutional
analysis of the formative perio
Fujimura takes us across history and into Russian society, its
orphanages and shelters, and along the streets of the nation to see
how abandoned children are stigmatized and shunned. Readers come to
understand how and why these children, left orphans by death or by
choice, form their own culture to find power and to survive. This
pioneering work on child abandonment looks at Russian society from
a new angle: from the perspectives of abandoned youngsters and
their caretakers. Based on direct observation of and interviews
with abandoned children, this work shows why any effort to rescue
these children calls for a deep understanding of Russian culture,
and why any effort to address abandonment in Russia calls for a
joint effort between psychologists, social workers, and the
children themselves. Researcher Fujimura takes us across history,
into Russian society, its orphanages and shelters, and along the
streets of the nation to see how abandoned children are stigmatized
and shunned. We also come to understand how and why these children,
left orphans by death or by choice, form their own culture to find
power and to survive. This pioneering work on child abandonment
looks at Russian society from a new angle: from the perspectives of
abandoned youngsters and their caretakers. Based on direct
observation of and interviews with abandoned children, this work
shows why any effort to rescue these children calls for a deep
understanding of Russian culture, and why any effort to affect
abandonment in Russia calls for a joint effort between
psychologists, social workers, and the children themselves.
This innovative study examines the early years of the Red Army as
it developed from a revolutionary partisan force into a modern,
professional institution under the leadership of Mikhail
Tukhachevsky, an important and controversial figure in the politics
of the Stalin period. Sally Stoecker combines her institutional
analysis of the formative period of the Soviet military with an
astute look at the person and political maneuvers of Marshal
Tukhachevsky and his complex relationship with Stalin, which
eventually led to his spectacular downfall and execution in the
Great Terror of the late 1930s.Based on newly available archival
materials, the book will be welcomed not only by military
historians but also by Russian historians for the light it sheds on
a vital area of Soviet political history.
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