The orphanage during the soviet period: a terrifying childhood

The communist political system, whose educational priorities lie directly in the transformation of the new man into a “Soviet comrade” is not an exception in this respect. The educational models to which children were subjected in order to be properly indoctrinated are detailed in postmodern novels that we will use as illustrative sources in this respect, the Glass Garden by Tatiana Tibuleac and Satisfaction by Mihaela Perciun. The central characters of these narratives can be studied in various aspects of their childhood evolution at the orphanage, as well as of their subsequent becoming. Both Lastocika and Reghina can be analyzed in terms of the formal education they received at the children’s home, but also outside it, of aspirations, informal education manifested through the entourage of which they were part, of the system of values that have been inoculated to them etc. The new aspects of these narratives that allow their qualification as postmodernist texts will also be highlighted throughout this article, as well as the direct influence of the orphanage space on the becoming of these characters.