The Republic of ShKID

The Republic of ShKID is an adventure, partly autobiographical children's novel by and 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" stands for Школа-коммуна имени Достоевского.
In 1966 Lenfilm produced a movie The [Republic of ShKID (film)|The Republic of ShKID] based on the novel.
The novel was included into the 2013 list 100 Books for Schoolchildren recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science (Russia).