The Republic of ShKID

1927 children's novel by Belych and Panteleev

ShKID building, Leningrad

The Republic of ShKID (Russian: Республика ШКИД) is an adventure, partly autobiographical children's novel by L. Panteleyev [ru] and Grigori Belykh [ru] 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  [ru]").

In 1966 Lenfilm produced a movie The Republic of ShKID based on the novel.[1] In 2013 the novel was included into the list 100 Books for Schoolchildren [ru] recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science (Russia).[2]

## References

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1. ^ The Republic of ShKID at IMDb
2. ^ О ПЕРЕЧНЕ «100 КНИГ» ПО ИСТОРИИ, КУЛЬТУРЕ И ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ НАРОДОВ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

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