Children’s Rescue League in 1918-1919

• In Event: Hunger, Homelessness, and Humanitarianism in Russia's Revolution and Civil War

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the Children's Rescue League in 1918-1919. During these years, the government paid almost no attention to the growing problem of street children pouring into the cities of the republic. Street children first attracted the attention of some public figures and members of the professional intelligentsia in 1918. The first initiative came from an independent public organization. On the initiative of V.G. Korolenko, a group of concerned social activists in Moscow created the Children's Rescue League, headed by E.D. Kuskova, N.M. Kishkin, L.A. Tarasevich, E. Peshkova and other representatives of the Russian intelligentsia in the fall of 1918.

Author

• Boris B Gorshkov, Kennesaw State U