And they lived happily ever after : norms and everyday practices of family and parenthood in Russia and Central Europe / [edited by] Helene Carlback, Yulia Gradskova and Zhanna Kravchenko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carlback, Helene, 1947-

Gradskova, IUliia.

Kravchenko, Zhanna.

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Carlbäck, Helene, 1947, editor, author.

Carlbäck, Helene.

Gradskova, Yulia, editor, author.

Gradskova, Yulia.

Kravchenko, Zhanna, editor, author.

Kravchenko, Zhanna.

Families--Russia (Federation).

Families.

Families--Soviet Union.

Families--Baltic States.

Families--Europe, Eastern.

Family policy--Russia (Federation).

Family policy.

Family policy--Soviet Union.

Family policy--Baltic States.

European 6 :--Russia & Eastern.

European 6 :.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages )

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, c2012.

Summary:

Takes a comparative perspective on family life and childhood in the past half century in Russia and Eastern Europe, highlighting similarities and differences. Focuses on the problematic domains of the institutions and laws devised to cope with family difficulties, and discusses the social strains created by the transition from communist to post-communist national systems. In addition to the substantial historic analysis, actual challenges are also discussed. The essays examine the changing gender roles, alterations in legal systems, the burdens faced by married and unmarried women who are mothers, the contrasts between government rhteoric and the implementation of policies toward marriage, children and parenthood. By addressing the specifics of welfare politics under the Communist rule and the directions of their transformation in 1990–2000s, this book contributes to the understanding of social institutions and family policies in these countries and the problems of dealing with the socialist past that this region face.

Contents:

Part I. 1940's - 1980's: the family as a "basic unit of socialist society" 1. Lone motherhood in Soviet Russia in the mid-20th century

in a European context / Helene Carlbäck ; 2. Family, divorce, and comrades' courts: Soviet family and public organizations during the thaw / Elena Zhidkova ; 3. A life of labor, a life of love: telling the life of a young peasant mother facing collectivization / Ildikó Asztalos Morell; 4. East German women going West: family, children and partners in life-experience literature / Christine Farhan ; 5. Why does public policy implementation fail? Lithuanian office of state benefits for mothers of large families and single mothers, 1944 - 1956 / Dalia Leinarte ; 6. The Latvian family experience with sovietization 1945 - 1990 / Majia Runcis

Part. II. 1990's - 2000's: social transformation in the mirror of family life 7. "Two children puts you in the zone of social misery": childbearing and risk perception among Russian women / Anna Rotkirch and Katja Kesseli ; 8. "Supporting genuine development of the child": public childcare centers versus family in post-Soviet Russia / Yulia Gradskova ; 9. Everyday continuity and change: family and family policy in Russia / Zhanna Kravchenko ; 10. Single mothers

clients or citizens? Social work with poor families in Russia / Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov ; 11. Welfare crisis and crisis-centers in Russia today / Aino Saarinen ; 12. Marriage and divorce law in Russia and the Baltic states: overview of recent changes / Olga A. Khazova ; 13. Doing parenting in post-socialist Estonia and Latvia / Ingegerd Municio-Larsson ; 14. Gendered experiences in entrepreneurship, family and social activities in Russia / Ann-Mari Sätre.

Notes:

Some papers were presented at the conference "Family, Marriage and Parenthood in Eastern Europe, Russia and Sweden" held September 2008 in Sweden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-71829-9

1-280-12912-3

9786613533005

615-5053-59-6

9781003718291

OCLC:

782916636