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'A harrowing account of abuse and suffering in post-Soviet Russia's childcare system.' (SUNDAY TIMES )
'An inspirational and heart-wrenching read.' (BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH )
'An against-all-odds story of light in a black world.' (HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER )
'Incredibly moving and deeply disturbing...a book which once read will not be easily forgotten.' (CONTEMPORARY REVIEW )
'An inspirational and heart-wrenching read.' (BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH )
'An against-all-odds story of light in a black world.' (HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER )
'Incredibly moving and deeply disturbing...a book which once read will not be easily forgotten.' (CONTEMPORARY REVIEW )
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Vanya is bright, inquisitive four-year-old with tousled black curls and a permanent grin. He doesn't know what the sun is. But Vanya is not stupid. He has not been beyond the four bare walls of his dormitory in a Russian orphanage for two years. During his time in the orphanage Vanya is neglected - starved of love, nourishment and stimulation. Finally, he is sent to an asylum - an underworld where children are left naked on a bare cots for 24 hours a day. But no matter what abuses he endured, Vanya's spirit was unquenchable. He never stopped reaching out to the people around him: other children he saw were giving up, the carers he inspired to fight the inexorable cruelty of the Soviet system and at last, across an ocean to the woman who would become his mother. Vanya's capacity for love saved his life, against all the odds.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
While Russia struggled to free itself from constraints of the failed Soviet system, a small boy -- and many others like him -- remained confined in a heartless labyrinth of orphanages and mental asylums run as they were in Stalin's time. With amazing courage and persistence, a small group of Russian campaigners and, notably, a handful of British and American women living in Moscow, dedicated themselves to shining light into these dark places and to rescuing some of the long-suffering children they found within. Sarah, wife of Alan Philps, a British newspaper correspondent living in Moscow, refused to be defeated by corruption, incompetence and official apathy. In The Boy from Baby House 10, Alan Philps recounts her struggle to save a small boy called Vanya from a hellish bureaucracy which wrongly condemned him as an imbecile and tried to keep him locked up for life. It took years of dedicated effort, frustration and disappointment to find, at last, a new life for Vanya with an adoptive mother in the United States. Vanya, now aged 20, lives in America and is known as John. He helped write this complex tale of heroic help overcoming hopelessness. His name appears with Alan Philps's on the cover. The result is inspirational, revealing and an uplifting read. The narrative is skilfully put together, with meticulous research underlining the emotional impact at every stage. All this book lacks is illustrations. They are readily available on www.alanphilps.com and should not be omitted in the second printing which this book so richly deserves.
-- Nigel Wade
-- Nigel Wade
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
This book was a real experience, although not a comfortable read. I was horrified to read about the lives of the children in this book, but found the story ultimately uplifting, as I realised how many people had gone out of their way to change the lives of one child for the better, and how he had survived and triumphed, despite all the odds.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A disturbing but inspiring account of this young man`s early life in the Russian `care` system. He survives extremes of neglect and abusive mis-management, firstly through his inner resource of simply making himself heard and secondly because the right people were there at the right time to hear him and begin the arduous and prolonged fight for his rescue. Many others were not so lucky. A very moving read.
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From Russia With Love
In 1990, a young boy named Vanya was born with possible cerebral palsy. Left in an orphanage, the young boy was relegated to an overcrowded ward where he and his fellow inmates... Read more
Published 21 months ago by BeatleBangs1964
Communists don't believe in "care in the community"
This is a wonderful book. It tells the history of one boy who almost miraculously escaped from a Russian orphanage, but it also sheds light onto the orphanage system itself,... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Charles Oatwig-Thain
Vital reading for anyone who loves children and/or wants to understand...
One of the cruellest sights I ever saw was the inside of a Russian orphanage. It was Orwellian in its hopelessness. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Ms. Vanora Bennett
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