The Family in the USSR

ISBN-13: 9780415178112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 408 str.

Rudolf Schlesinger

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Introduction; Part 1 Fundamental Attitudes and First Revolutionary Legislation; Chapter 1 Lenin’s Letters to Inesse Armand1The two letters to Inesse Armand, written by Lenin in January 1915, were published in Pod Znamenem Marxisma, 1938, No. 6, with an introduction and notes by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute written, of course, at the time of publication. The letters evidently reflect Lenin’s attitude to the needs of the propaganda of a working-class Part y in a capitalist country, whilst the introduction bridges the gap to the latest developments in Soviet family policies., R. S.; Chapter 2 Decree on the Introduction of Divorce of Dec. 19, 19171Collection of Laws and Decrees of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government’, 1917, No. 152.; Chapter 3 The Original Family Law of the Russian Soviet Republic1The matrimonial legislation of the Bolshevist revolution began a few months after the conquest of power with the establishment of Registrar’s Offices and the introduction of civil marriage (in place of the pre-reyolutionary ecclesiastical registra tion of all acts of civil status, arguments against which were responsible for art. 71–3 and 148 of this document) and of legal divorce (see above doc. 2). In order to give the new authorities some guidance, the Code of Laws on the Registration of Deaths, Births and Marriages was enacted in the following year; thus Family law (together with Labour law) was among the first branches of Soviet law to be codified. The systematic codification of all branches of Soviet law followed at a later period, at the beginning of the New Economic Policy; we had therefore to quote (below, docs. 3 (b) and 3 (c)) from enactments of 1922 in order to illustrate the economic aspects of Soviet matrimonial law before its complete codification in 1926 (see below, docs. 6 and 7). The much-discussed law on the legalization of abortion (doc. 3 (d)) was enacted quite independently of the general matrimonial legislation, as a measure intended to improve heal

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Rudolf Schlesinger