The Republic of ShKID

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] The novel was included into the 2013 list 100 Books for Schoolchildren recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science (Russia).