Mothers of Misery: Child Abandonment in Russia by David L. Ransel

Mothers of Misery: Child Abandonment in Russia

David L. Ransel

346 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology informative medium-paced
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At the height of its operation in the second half of the nineteenth century, the central foundling home in Moscow was receiving 17,000 children each year. The home dispatched most to wet nurses and foster care in the countryside, where at any one ...

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