«Old Has Outlived Its Usefulness and Has No Force, and New Has Not Yet Developed»: Peasants’ Ways of Resolving Family Conflicts in Russia in the First Third of the XX Century
https://doi.org/10.26105/SSPU.2022.77.2.013
Abstract
The article highlights the ways of solving family conflicts by Russian peasants in the first third of the XX century. In the first third of the XX century political events took place in Russia, which caused radical changes in the state system and the daily life of society. Having studied the ego documents of the peasants on the basis of methodological approaches to the history of everyday life and gender history, we identify the methods actually used by the peasants to resolve family conflicts, and also determine the degree of their interaction with the authorities on this issue. The scientific novelty of the conclusions of this article consists in identifying legal nihilism in solving family conflicts by peasants in Russia in the first third of the XX century. It’s concluded that during this period family conflicts were resolved by peasants using traditional patriarchal methods. Such ways to resolve family conflicts of peasants as marriage and the assault of the husband towards his wife were identified. An indication of the use of physical assault to resolve a family conflict is more common in the ego documents of male peasants, which has become an expression of misunderstanding of the intensified process of changing the role of women in the family. The author of the article redlines that peasants appealed to the authorities to resolve family conflicts requiring the resolution of material issues. Cases of such appeals relate to the period preceding 1917, as well as the end of the 1920s.
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About the Author
S. P. Kachesova
Siberian Institute of Business and Information Technologies
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kachesova Svetlana Pavlovna – PhD (History), Associate Professor of the Faculty of Full-time Education
Omsk
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Kachesova S.P. «Old Has Outlived Its Usefulness and Has No Force, and New Has Not Yet Developed»: Peasants’ Ways of Resolving Family Conflicts in Russia in the First Third of the XX Century. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2022;(2 (77)):122-136. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26105/SSPU.2022.77.2.013
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