Women, the State and Revolution - Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936

Klappentext This book focuses on how women! peasants! and orphans responded to Bolshevik attempts to remake the family! and how their opinions and experiences in turn were used by the state to meet its own needs. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on how women! peasants! and orphans responded to Bolshevik attempts to remake the family! and how their opinions and experiences in turn were used by the state to meet its own needs. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The origins of the Bolshevik vision: love unfettered: women free; 2. The first retreat: Besprizornost and socialised childrearing; 3. Law and life collide: free union and the wage-earning population; 4. Stirring the sea of peasant stagnation; 5. Pruning the 'Bourgeois Thicket': drafting a new family code; 6. Freedom and its consequences: the debate on the 1926 family code; 7. Reproduction and the law; 8. Recasting the vision: the resurrection of the family; 9. Conclusion: the new socialist state, law and family.

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• Authors: Wendy Z. Goldman, Wendy Z. (Carnegie Mellon University Goldman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.1993
• EAN: 9780521458160
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45816-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies; Cambridge Russian, Soviet and; Cambridge Russian, Soviet and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories