Ransel Mothers of Misery

Child Abandonment in Russia
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5944-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 346 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

At the height of its operation in the second half of the nineteenth century, the central foundling home in Moscow was receiving 17,000 children each year. The home dispatched most to wet nurses and foster care in the countryside, where at any one time it supervised over 40,000 children in Moscow province and six adjoining provinces. Established by Empress Catherine II in the middle of the eighteenth century, the two central foundling homes (the other was in St. Petersburg) were intended to deal humanely with the growing problems of abandonment and infanticide and to serve as social laboratories for educating artisans and craftspeople. David Ransel explores the creation and management of these institutions, shows how they functioned as a point of contact between educated society and the village, and compares them to the European foundling care programs on which they were modeled. "There were two central foundling homes in Russia, one in Moscow, one in St. Petersburg. [In this book] no significant aspect of their history is left untouched, and many issues are described and analyzed in rich detail. the book becomes, in part, a history of rural Russia over a one-hundred-fifty-year period, or, more accurately, of the provincial hinterlands of the two capitals. The interaction between city and countryside turns out to be much more than a clich in this fascinating study."--Reginald E. Zelnik, American Historical Review

Originally published in 1988.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Ransel, David L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. vii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND FIGURES, pg. ix
LIST OF TABLES, pg. xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii
ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xiv
ONE. Introduction, pg. 3
TWO. Illegitimacy and Infanticide in Early Modern Russia, pg. 8
THREE. "You Too Shall Live": The Betskoi System, pg. 31
FOUR. The Era of the Turning Cradle in Europe and Russia, pg. 62
FIVE. Public Criticism and Piecemeal Reform, pg. 84
SIX. A Break with the Past, pg. 106
SEVEN. Sex Ratios of the Abandoned Children, pg. 130
EIGHT. The Abandoning Mothers, pg. 150
NINE. Fosterage: The First One Hundred Years, pg. 176
TEN. The Foundling Market: A Network of Exchange between Town and Village, pg. 198
ELEVEN. Geography of the Fosterage System, pg. 222
TWELVE. Social and Medical Consequences of Fosterage, pg. 256
THIRTEEN. Conclusions, pg. 294
APPENDIX, pg. 303
BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 309
INDEX, pg. 325