Elizabeth M. Norman approfondisce le profonde narrazioni umane che si trovano al centro di eventi storici significativi. Il suo lavoro si distingue per una ricerca meticolosa e un approccio empatico, dando voce a coloro che vengono spesso trascurati. La scrittura di Norman esplora le complessità delle esperienze belliche, evidenziando la resilienza e il coraggio degli individui di fronte a immense sfide. Attraverso i suoi libri, offre ai lettori una prospettiva avvincente per comprendere la storia e l'umanità.
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.