Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. List of Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. “Like Reaching Paradise after Being in Hell”: The Turbulent Transition from Spain to the USSR 16
8. 2. “We, the Spanish, Were like an Island”: Boarding Schools and Personnel as Loci and Models of Care and Soviet Values 39
9. 3. Obuchenie: Classroom Instruction, Patriotism, and the Instilling of Soviet Values 63
10. 4. Vospitanie: Kul’turnost’ and Kruzhki as Techniques of Normative Behaviour Training 78
11. 5. Becoming Soviet in Traumatic Times: Life in War, 1939–1944 101
12. 6. No Longer Children: Transitioning to Adulthood during War and Reconstruction 132
13. Conclusion: Life after Stalin 155
14. Glossary 167
15. Notes 169
16. Bibliography 217
17. Index 237