Elizabeth M. Norman profundiza en las narrativas humanas que se encuentran en el corazón de eventos históricos significativos. Su trabajo se distingue por una investigación meticulosa y un enfoque empático, dando voz a aquellos que a menudo son pasados por alto. La escritura de Norman explora las complejidades de las experiencias bélicas, destacando la resiliencia y el coraje de los individuos que enfrentan inmensos desafíos. A través de sus libros, ofrece a los lectores una perspectiva cautivadora para comprender la historia y la humanidad.
The previously untold story of the incredible Janina (Pepi Spinner) Mehlberg, a young Polish-Jewish mathematician who saved the lives of many inmates of the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp at Lublin in Poland during the Second World War - which she did by posing as a bogus Polish aristocrat named Countess Janina Suchodolska.
A range of detailed narratives about practice written by teacher educators, for teacher educators, carefully curated by the author to draw out key learning points, including a range of coaching questions.
1. Introduction: The History of Modern Childhood -- 2. Education, the State and the Russian Child in the Eighteenth Century -- 3. Childhood in Late Imperial Russia -- 4. Childhoods in Revolution, Civil War and Austerity, 1917 - 1929 -- 5. Stalinism and the Making of Soviet Childhood -- 6. Post-War Soviet Childhoods, 1953 - 1991 -- 7. Postscript: Childhood in Modern Russian Federation -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.