Orphans into Soviet Citizens: Ambiguity of Modernization in State Care in Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s

• In Event: Old Ways Everlasting: Reassessing the Results of Soviet Modernization in Ukraine

Abstract

The paper explores the new forms of state care for orphans in Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. While Soviet state care included ideological indoctrination and control like its counterparts in Poland and Romania, it excluded many successful elements introduced under the previous regime. This feature made it instrumental in reversing the aim of modernisation that it was proclaimed to achieve.

Author

• Artem Kharchenko, I. P. Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv National U of Arts (Ukraine)