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Children and youth in the Russian Revolution (2022)
Book Chapter
White, E. (2023). Children and youth in the Russian Revolution. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution. Bloomsbury Publishing

Through 30 interpretative essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution sees an international team of leading scholars comprehensively examine Russia's revolutionary years. In the wake of the 2017 centenary, this handbook is the first ref... Read More about Children and youth in the Russian Revolution.

A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union (2020)
Book
White, E. (2020). A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union. (1). Bloomsbury Publishing

A Modern History of Russian Childhood examines the changes and continuities in ideas about Russian childhood from the 18th to the 21st century. It looks at how children were thought about and treated in Russian and Soviet culture, as well as how the... Read More about A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union.

Relief, reconstruction and the rights of the child: The case of Russian displaced children in Constantinople, 1920-22 (2017)
Book Chapter
White, E. (2017). Relief, reconstruction and the rights of the child: The case of Russian displaced children in Constantinople, 1920-22. In N. Baron (Ed.), Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953 (70-96). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004310742_004

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 th... Read More about Relief, reconstruction and the rights of the child: The case of Russian displaced children in Constantinople, 1920-22.

The struggle against denationalisation: The Russian emigration in Europe and education in the 1920s (2013)
Journal Article
White, E. (2013). The struggle against denationalisation: The Russian emigration in Europe and education in the 1920s. Revolutionary Russia, 26(2), 128-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2013.856076

This article examines the attempts made by Russian émigré activists in inter-war Europe to educate Russian refugee children in a network of national Russian schools. This formed an important aspect of the émigré elite's mission of saving Russian cult... Read More about The struggle against denationalisation: The Russian emigration in Europe and education in the 1920s.

The return of evacuated children to Leningrad, 1944-46 (2011)
Book Chapter
White, E. (2011). The return of evacuated children to Leningrad, 1944-46. In J. Reinisch, & E. White (Eds.), The Disentanglement of Populations Migration, Expulsion and Displacement in postwar Europe, 1944-49 (251-270). Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan

The Disentanglement of Populations. Migration, Expulsion and Displacement in Post-War Europe, 1944-9 (2011)
Book
White, E., & Reinisch, J. (2011). The Disentanglement of Populations. Migration, Expulsion and Displacement in Post-War Europe, 1944-9. Palgrave Macmillan

This volume of essays examines forced and voluntary population movements in the aftermath of the Second World War. It brings to life problems of war and postwar chaos and assesses the lasting social, political and demographic consequences.

The socialist alternative to Bolshevik Russia: The socialist revolutionary party, 1921-39 (2010)
Book
White, E. (2010). The socialist alternative to Bolshevik Russia: The socialist revolutionary party, 1921-39. Abingdon, UK: Routledge

The Socialist Revolutionary party, which had been the largest and most popular party in Russia in 1917, did not after the October Revolution just disappear into the "dustbin of history", as Trotsky hoped, but – led by its leadership in exile in the 1... Read More about The socialist alternative to Bolshevik Russia: The socialist revolutionary party, 1921-39.

After the war was over: The civilian return to Leningrad (2007)
Journal Article
White, E. (2007). After the war was over: The civilian return to Leningrad. Europe-Asia Studies, 59(7), 1145-1161. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668130701607128

This article focuses on the civilian return to Leningrad after the end of the Blockade and in the immediate post-war period. It examines how the authorities tried to control movement back to the city but proved to be overwhelmed by vast numbers of ci... Read More about After the war was over: The civilian return to Leningrad.

The émigré socialist revolutionary party and the russian peasantry during nep (2005)
Journal Article
White, E. (2005). The émigré socialist revolutionary party and the russian peasantry during nep. Revolutionary Russia, 18(1), 47-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546540500091134

This article examines the analysis of the Russian peasantry during NEP that was made by members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (SRs) in emigration. They saw evidence that peasant behaviour in this period justified narodnik beliefs. It also disc... Read More about The émigré socialist revolutionary party and the russian peasantry during nep.