Soviet Street Children and the Second World War

Kucherenko, Olga

doi:10.5040/9781474296199

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“…Children were seen as the best hope of recovering and prospering. They became the backbone of new political orders (Fürst, 2010;Kucherenko, 2016;Taylor, 2006). In modern nation states, the purpose of children's regulation is to "instill into the young people the values that would enable them to be proper citizens of their nations in the future" (Schumann, 2010, p. 1).…”

Section: Socialist Modernity and Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Under socialist modernity, children strive to grow up, since adulthood is presented to them as the real world, the time that matters, the time when life gains sense and meaning by being able to participate and contribute to the common goal of building the happy state and happy future (Georgescu, 2015). Under socialism, children are valued not for their immediate contribution but for their future possibilities (Fürst, 2010;Kucherenko, 2016, Taylor, 2006. Only occasionally, they get the taste of the adult world.…”

Section: Body Memoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘When the body speaks back’: Socialization of body-mind dualism in body memories of Cold War childhoods

2023

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Studies focusing on East Central Europe have generously explored collective memory (lieux de mémoire, monuments, ceremonies) and nostalgia for a past regime, but rarely have they examined memories as carried in child bodies. In this paper, we analyze selected Cold War childhood memories to explore events in which children’s bodies seemingly act out of control. As a part of socialization, children are taught to consciously control their bodies to fit in the societies they have been born to. With learning to control the body, children also learn that bodies are separate from their minds and that their minds can govern and regiment their body. However, bodies also slip up, avert, or simply remain unaffected by these attempts, in a way ‘speaking back’ to regulating forces, thus troubling the modernist assumption of the separation between the mind and body. The aim of the paper is to show the complexities and limits of socialist or any modern(ist) forms of socialization in which the concerted efforts of the mind are mobilized to govern the body. Moreover, the discussion of body memory and the highlighted mechanisms of how socialization efforts create bodily memories adds to our understanding of the effects of pedagogical intentions in education.

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Section: Socialist Modernity and Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Body Memoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%