About the Author

Alan M. Ball is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University and the author of Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-1929 (California, 1987).

Reviews

"Ball argues that war and famine played a part in creating the phenomenon of millions of abandoned children in the early Soviet state. However, he also contends that economic and social conditions such as high divorce rates, simple abandonment, and single-parent families fostered by state policies contributed to this situation. . . . The work is completely accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike."--G. E. Snow, "Choice