Title: Mothers of misery : child abandonment in Russia /
Authors: Ransel, David L.
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Abandoned children Soviet Union History.; Foundlings Soviet Union History.; Foster home care Soviet Union History.; Child, Abandoned history; Foster Home Care history
Contents: Illegitimacy and infanticide in early modern Russia -- "You too shall live": the Betskoi system -- The era of the turning cradle in Europe and Russia -- Public criticism and piecemeal reform -- A break with the past -- Sex ratios of abandoned children -- The abandoning mothers -- Fosterage: the first one hundred years -- The foundling market: a network of exchange between town and village -- Geography of the fosterage system -- Social and medical consequences of fosterage.