Book
The Soviet family
Doubleday and Company • Garden City, N.y • Published In 1963 • Pages:
By: Mace, D. R. (David Robert), Mace, Vera.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Soviet government aggressively pursued a series of communist policies, including organizing individual families into large-scale collectives. In addition to jointly owning land and other productive assets, members of each collective lived in crowded, government-planned apartment complexes with shared kitchens and nurseries, among other facilities. This book discusses the effects of these interventions on the structure and functions of the Soviet family. The authors underscore the dedication of hard-core communist leaders and young party functionaries to a radical transformation of family life, including domestic chores, gender roles and socialization practices. They nevertheless also note important continuities in the everyday lives of and emotional ties between family members. Soviet families they interviewed struggled with broadly similar crises of divorce, abortion, sexual offenses, and gender inequality that pre-revolutionary families endured. Data informing the discussion were collected through a journey by car that the authors made to camping sites and large cities within the Soviet Union at a time when the Communist regime very rarely permitted access to Western researchers; it is seldom made apparent whether or not the individuals interviewed were ethnically Russian.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Social personality
- Population policy
- Housing
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- Marriage
- Family relationships
- Political parties
- Sex
- Techniques of socialization
- Gender roles and issues
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- 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 ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1960-1961
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1917-1962
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Soviet Union (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
- NotesAdditional notes
- David and Vera Mace
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 63011212
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Families--Soviet Union