Alan Ball
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Ball |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ball |
| SIGNATURE | BALL A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
State Children
In the heady days of revolutionary triumph, the fledgling Bolshevik government sought to take upon itself the task of feeding, clothing and even raising a large share of the country's children. Decrees instructed central and local agencies in 1918 and 1919 to arrange the distribution of food to juveniles-free of charge-from schools, special dining halls and other outlets.1 More ambitious still, the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment (Narkompr…
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 …
An awkward partner
Rural England
NEP's second wind
Lenin and the Question of Private Trade in Soviet Russia
Few official changes of course in the Soviet Union have been as dramatic as the adoption of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1921. Supplanting what had come to be called War Communism (1918-1920)-a boiling mixture of revolutionary euphoria, bitter civil war, foreign intervention, economic collapse, and growing peasant unrest-NEP represented a new departure in many areas of Soviet life. First and foremost, eyewitnesses were struck by the legalizat…
An awkward partner
State Children
In the heady days of revolutionary triumph, the fledgling Bolshevik government sought to take upon itself the task of feeding, clothing and even raising a large share of the country's children. Decrees instructed central and local agencies in 1918 and 1919 to arrange the distribution of food to juveniles-free of charge-from schools, special dining halls and other outlets.1 More ambitious still, the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment (Narkompr…
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 …
NEP's second wind
Lenin and the Question of Private Trade in Soviet Russia
Few official changes of course in the Soviet Union have been as dramatic as the adoption of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1921. Supplanting what had come to be called War Communism (1918-1920)-a boiling mixture of revolutionary euphoria, bitter civil war, foreign intervention, economic collapse, and growing peasant unrest-NEP represented a new departure in many areas of Soviet life. First and foremost, eyewitnesses were struck by the legalizat…
NEP's second wind
Rural England
An awkward partner
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 …
State Children
In the heady days of revolutionary triumph, the fledgling Bolshevik government sought to take upon itself the task of feeding, clothing and even raising a large share of the country's children. Decrees instructed central and local agencies in 1918 and 1919 to arrange the distribution of food to juveniles-free of charge-from schools, special dining halls and other outlets.1 More ambitious still, the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment (Narkompr…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economic history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Soviet and Russian History (3 works) · Communism (2 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · European history and politics (2 works) · History (2 works)