essay
Structure and functions of the Soviet rural family
Soviet rural community • Urbana • Published In 1971 • Pages: 325-345
By: Dunn, Stephen Porter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study argues that despite decades of radical changes—most notably the replacement of rural villages with socialist agricultural collectives—the traditional Russian peasant family has continued to function as a corporate unit. Three relevant domains of family life are identified. First, family members continue to pool and share resources, including income earned by individuals for work in communes, state owned enterprises, private home plots and from various other sources. Second, the family remained the main agent for raising and socializing children. Third, despite the growing role of communes as basic administrative units, the family continues to be the fundamental unit of social organization in other domains, including the conduct of rites of passage and the informal exchange of resources.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Economic planning and development
- Cooperative organization
- Nuptials
- Family relationships
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1952-1954; 1959-1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1861-1969
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- European Soviet Union
- NotesAdditional notes
- Stephen P. Dunn
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 70122913
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Agriculture and state--Soviet Union--Congresses
- Soviet Union--Rural conditions--Congresses