Full Description
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.
Contents
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
