1st Edition

The Family in the USSR

By Rudolf Schlesinger Copyright 1949
    418 Pages
    by Routledge

    418 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1998. This is Volume III of eight in the Sociology of the Soviet Union series. Written in 1949, this is a collection of translated essays and documents about the family in the USSR and the changing attitudes prevailing in Soviet Russia towards specific aspects of social and political life.

    Introduction; Part I: Fundamental Attitudes and First Revolutionary Legislation; Docment No. 1: Lenin's Letters to Inesse Armand 1; Docment No. 2: Decree on the Introduction of Divorce of Dec. 19, 1917 1; Docment No. 3: The Original Family Law of the Russian Soviet Republic 1; Docment No. 4: Excerpts from the Works of A. M. Kollontay 1; Docment No. 5: Excerpts from Klara Zetkin: Reminiscences of Lenin 1; Part II: The 1926 Family Code and the Practical Application of Soviet Family Law; Docment No. 6: Discussion of the Draft of the Code 1; Docment No. 7: Parts I and II of the Code of Laws on Marriage and Divorce, the Family and Guardianship; Docment No. 8: From A. M. Sabsovich's Pamphlet: The U.S.S.R. After Another 15 Years. 1; Docment No. 9: Soviet Experience with Legal Abortion; Docment No. 10: Soviet Justice and Administration in their Fight for the Emancipation of Women in the Soviet East; Docment No. 11: A. Yurashkevich: Litigation between Parents on the Education of Children 1; Part III: New Trends after the Stabilization of Soviet Society; Docment No. 12: Conference of the Wives of Engineers in Heavy Industry (May 1936) 1; Docment No. 12: Public Discussion on the Law on the Abolition of Legal Abortion, Etc. 1; Docment No. 14: Explanations of the New Family Policy by Soviet Theorists 1; Docment No. 15: Criticism of the Institution of De Facto Marriage 1; Docment No. 16: Abolition of Co-Education in Soviet Schools; Docment No. 17: The Family Law of July 8, 1944; Conclusion

    Biography

    Rudolf Schlesinger