CHILDREN’S HOME AS «HISTORICAL NECESSITY» IN THE PERIOD OF THE FORMATION OF THE SOVIET TOTALITARIAN REGIME

Abstract

The article deals with one form of struggle against the children’s homelessness in Soviet Ukraine during the formation of the Soviet totalitarian regime – the creation of a network of children’s homes.The article is devoted to the study of socio-organizational activities and social rehabilitation institutions for homeless children in the USSR in the 1920s.The author studied the reasons for creating a network of institutions, revealed their types. Also the author describes children’s homelessness and lack of parental supervision as a complex of social problems during the construction of the Soviet totalitarian system.Also basic directions of struggle against the social phenomenon are described here. The article gives a detailed analysis of occurrence causes of children’s homelessness in Soviet Ukraine in 20th years of the XX century. Much attention is given to activity of central government and local authorities of overcoming of children’s homelessness and lack of parental supervision. The author describes and analyzes state system of childhood protection and overcoming children’s homelessness. It is stressed on the work of social defense and children rehabilitation organizations in 20th years of the ХХ century. It is stressed on the unpublished sources of the State Archives of Kherson region.