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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.

Socialist bloc childhoods and children's rights in the Cold War (2021)
Book Chapter
White, E. Socialist bloc childhoods and children's rights in the Cold War. In Eastern Europe: A Global Area. Bloomsbury. Manuscript submitted for publication

The chapter looks at the globalisation of the Soviet model of education and childhood, first to Central and Eastern Europe, and then to the 'Third World' after the war. It covers the attempts by socialist bloc states to internationalise children's ri... Read More about Socialist bloc childhoods and children's rights in the Cold War.

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.

A category "Easy to Liquidate": The League of Nations, Russian refugee children in the 1920s and the history of humanitarianism (2016)
Book Chapter
White, E. (2016). A category "Easy to Liquidate": The League of Nations, Russian refugee children in the 1920s and the history of humanitarianism. In M. Rodriguez Garcia, D. Rodogno, & L. Kozma (Eds.), The League of Nations' Work on Social Issues: Visions, Endeavours and Experiments (201-214). Geneva: United Nations Publications

This chapter examines the work of the High Commission for Russian Refugees of the League of Nations. It analyses their approach to solving the issue of child refugees and places this in debates around the historical development of human rights and hu... Read More about A category "Easy to Liquidate": The League of Nations, Russian refugee children in the 1920s and the history of humanitarianism.

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