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Breaking the Ties That Bound

Breaking the Ties That Bound

Engel, Barbara Alpern

Hardcover

General SociologyGeneral World HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 0801449510
ISBN13: 9780801449512
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Mar 15 2011
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Russia's Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia's social, economic, and cultural landscape. Barbara Alpern Engel explores the personal, cultural, and political consequences of these dramatic changes, focusing on their impact on intimate life and expectations and the resulting challenges to the traditional, patriarchal family order, the cornerstone of Russia's authoritarian political and religious regime. The widely perceived marriage crisis had far-reaching legal, institutional, and political ramifications. In Breaking the Ties That Bound, Engel draws on exceptionally rich archival documentation--in particular, on petitions for marital separation and the materials generated by the ensuing investigations--to explore changing notions of marital relations, domesticity, childrearing, and intimate life among ordinary men and women in imperial Russia.

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