The Roots ofBesprizornost'in Soviet Russia's First Decade

No spectacle in Soviet cities more troubled Russian and foreign observers during the 1920s than the millions of orphaned and abandoned children known asbesprizornye.Whether portrayed as pitiable victims or as devious wolf-children preying on the surrounding population, they haunted the works of journalists, travelers and Communist Party members alike. "Every visitor sees it first," a foreigner noted, "and is so shocked by the sight that the most widely known Russian youth are the ... homeless children flapping along the main streets of cities and the main routes of travel like ragged flocks of animated scarecrows." By 1922 the number of waifs reached the neighborhood of seven million, inundating cities and alarming officials that the country might soon amass enough inveterate delinquents to disrupt the socialist transformation of society

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