Relief, Reconstruction and the Rights of the Child: The Case of Russian Displaced Children in Constantinople, 1920–22
Year: 2017

This chapter examines the displacement and resettlement of the Russian children who were evacuated across the Black Sea from Ukraine, southern Russia and Crimea in 1920 at the end of the Russian Civil War.2 Their displacement had begun long before they left Russia itself. But the children’s arrival in Constantinople was to be just the start of a further series of migrations, firstly into the Balkans, Central Europe or France; later, for some, to the French colonies or North or South America.