CHILD NEGLECT AND HOMELESSNESS IN ULYANOVSK REGION AND THE TATAR ASSR IN 1945–1955: HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE OF LIQUIDATION

Darya V. Sedova

DOI: 10.47026/2712-9454-2020-1-3-45-52

Key words

child neglect, homelessness, offence against the law, orphans, liquidation

Annotation

The article is devoted to the study of the accumulated experience of building the system of child neglect and homelessness liquidation, which took place in 1945–1955, to the analysis of experience on overcoming the problems of juvenile crime and delinquency. The purpose of the article is to study the historical past, the experience gained in the post-war decade in liquidation of child neglect and homelessness. The scientific novelty of the article consists in carrying out a complex analysis of the system, which executed the fight against the phenomena under study in the period of 1945–1955 in the areas under consideration. The analysis is carried out on the basis of published and archival sources. During the work on the article, the author used the materials on Ulyanovsk region, the Tatar ASSR; she studied the experience of forming the system for fighting against child neglect and homelessness in the Chuvash ASSR. The material is represented on the basis of a number of traditional general scientific and special-scientific methods: comparison of phenomena under study, description as well as elements of biographical analysis. The main conclusion is made that in 1945–1955 the state attempted to use a complex approach to eradicate child neglect and homelessness by creating and qualitative functioning of specially organized commissions for placing children. There is no doubt that the accumulated historical experience was of great importance for the formation of the modern system of prevention bodies and deserves attention for its use in modern society.

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Information about the author

Darya V. Sedova – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Director of the Pre-university Training Center, Ulyanovsk State University, Russia, Ulyanovsk (sdv221187@mail.ru).

For citations

Sedova D.V. CHILD NEGLECT AND HOMELESSNESS IN ULYANOVSK REGION AND THE TATAR ASSR IN 1945–1955: HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE OF LIQUIDATION. Historical Search, 2020, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 45–52. DOI: 10.47026/2712-9454-2020-1-3-45-52 (in Russian).

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