The Republic of ShKID

by Grigory Belykh, L. Panteleev · first published 1927

The Republic of ShKID (Russian: Республика ШКИД) is an adventure, partly autobiographical children's novel by L. Panteleyev and Grigori Belykh written in 1926 and printed in 1927. The book is about the fate of Russian street boys (besprizorniks) who landed in the Fyodor Dostoyevsky School-Commune for Difficult Teenagers. "ШКИД" (ShKID) stands for Школа-коммуна имени Достоевского ("Dostoyevsky School-Commune "). In 1966 Lenfilm produced a movie The Republic of ShKID based on the novel.

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Genre:

Children's

Original language:

Russian

Year page:

1927