In late 1949 city officials stretched a banner that read 'SEVASTOPOLIANS! What have you done for the restoration of your hometown ' across one of the most heavily travelled streets in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. It...
Published as: Karl D. Qualls, "The Crimean War’s Long Shadow: Urban Biography and the Reconstruction of Sevastopol after World War II," in "Russia beyond the Traditional Boundaries: Essays in Honor of David M. Goldfrank," ed....
Qualls, Karl D. "De 'Niños de la Guerra' a Jóvenes Soviéticos: Educación, Aculturación y Paternalismo, 1939-1945." Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea 38 (2016): 77-101., En este artículo se aborda la huida de la guerra civil...
During their 400-mile walk from Málaga to Valencia, the five Molinas children, ages six to thirteen, endured lethal attack from land and air. Having already lost one of her children to the war, their mother decided to send her...
Published as: Qualls, Karl D. "From Hooligans to Disciplined Students: Displacement, Resettlement, and Role Modelling of Spanish Civil War Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51." In Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern...
In 1937 and 1938, as the bombing of Guernica and northern Spain increased in frequency and intensity, thousands of children boarded ships to safer residences in foreign countries. About 3,000 children, with teachers and...
Published as: Qualls, Karl D. "Imagining Sevastopol: History and Postwar Community Construction, 1942–1953." National Identities 5, no. 2 (2003): 123-139. This author pre-print is made available on Dickinson Scholar with...
Published as: Qualls, Karl D. "The Russian Revolutions: The Impact and Limitations of Western Influence." In Russia and Western Civilization: Cultural and Historical Encounters , edited by Russell Bova, 113-41. Armonk, N.Y:...
Stalin’s Niños examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. An analysis of the archival record and numerous letters, oral histories, and memoirs reveals that this...