List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: BECOMING A SOCIAL ORPHAN
Chapter 1. A Brief History of Family Policy in Russia
Chapter 2. The State as a Co-Parent
Chapter 3. State and Family: Tilting the Balance of Power
Chapter 4. Parents Overwhelmed by the State
Chapter 5. Norms and Deviance
PART II. BEING A SOCIAL ORPHAN
Chapter 6. The State as a Sole Parent
Chapter 7. The World of Social Orphans
PART III: POST-SOVIET OR SOVIET? SELF-PERPETUATION OF THE SYSTEM
Chapter 8. The Continuing Soviet Legacy: Paradoxes of Change and Continuity
Chapter 9. The Post-Soviet Case in a Wider Context
Conclusion
Appendix I: List of Documents Supplied to the Court by
the Guardianship Department and the Baby Home in Maria’s Case
Appendix II: Reminiscences of Two ‘Bad’ Childhoods
References
Glossary
Index
Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill was born in Russia and first trained as a Biologist. In 2004 she received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Darwin College, Cambridge University. From 2004–2007 she worked as a Research Associate at the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University. She was a 2007 Wenner-Gren Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow, and a PI for an ESF-funded international project ‘Moved by the State: Perspectives on Relocation and Resettlement in the Circumpolar North’ at the University of Alberta, Canada (2007–2010).
“Reflecting long-standing anthropological and sociological interests in bureaucracy and institutions, as well as in kinship and the family, this book provides a wealth of ethnographic data about vulnerable children in the new Russia, their relationships to their parents, the state, and each other….It is difficult to do justice to this complex book in a short space. As a study of children in institutions, it is revealing and, thanks to the outstanding writing, often very moving…This is a profound study of kinship and its consequences which deserves a very wide readership.” · JRAI “This study is extremely well done; a fluently written, scholarly account and analysis that provides a necessary addition to the “post-Soviet” literature, which has few such sharp analyses of the family, not least because the author takes on relevant debates and histories that both add considerable depth to this discussion and widen the applicability of the primary focus. Thus, we are given a marvellously careful and detailed insight into the workings of a provincial bureaucracy still shaped by the mores and customs of a Soviet bureaucracy but now faced with the sharply different context of the post-Soviet world.” · Catherine Alexander, Goldsmiths College, London
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