The Republic of ShKID (Russian: Республика ШКИД) is an adventure, partly autobiographical children's novel by L. Panteleyev and Grigori Belykh written in 1926 and printed in 1927.
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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 ").
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 recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science (Russia).[2]
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