Professional Affiliation

Dean and Professor of History at Villanova University

Expert Bio

Adele Lindenmeyr, Dean and Professor of History at Villanova University, is the author of Poverty Is Not a Vice: Charity, Society and the State in Imperial Russia, and coeditor of Russia’s Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914-1922 (Slavica, 2016-18), and Women and Gender in Russia’s Great War and Revolution (forthcoming).  

Wilson Center Project

The Discovery of Childhood in Tsarist Russia: Conscience and Civic Consciousness in Child Welfare Movements, 1861-1914

Project Summary

research on voluntary initiatives concerning child welfare during the late Imperial period: the movment to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents (as a response to legal reforms of 1864) and the campaign against child abuse and the exploitation of child labor (1880s and 1890s). This research reveals the changing attitudes towards children and family, anxieties of educated society about the nation’s future, and the prominance of the urban centers. Evaluates presence of the legal profession, and its evolution. Makes use of workers’ journals.