Adoption in post-Soviet Russia: Nationalism and the re-invention of the "Russian family"
by Minchella, Tina Danielle, M.A., ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2008, 87 pages; 1455984

Abstract:

The collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent social upheaval resulted in a large population of orphaned and abandoned children. Despite the historic place of adoption in Russian society, adoption has been a little-used solution to the orphan problem in recent decades. With a growing acknowledgment of the inability of Soviet-style orphanages to provide adequate care for orphans, programs to support family forms of placement were created by the Russian government, under President Vladimir Putin. Adoption, however, can also be viewed as a case study of a larger movement by the Russian government to resolve the demographic crisis through a re-invention of the "Russian" family. This thesis thus seeks to understand how adoption functions in a society in transition, as the Russian government attempts to remove the burden of orphan care from the state by seeking the help of the Russian family.

 
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SchoolARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
SourceMAI/ 46-06, p. , Aug 2008
Source TypeThesis
SubjectsIndividual & family studies; Russian history
Publication Number1455984
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