And they lived happily ever after : norms and everyday practices of family and parenthood in Russia and Central Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Kravchenko, Zhanna (Author, Editor), Gradskova, I︠U︡lii︠a︡ (Author, Editor), Carlbäck, Helene, 1947- (Author, Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Family policy > Baltic States. Family policy > Soviet Union. Family policy > Russia (Federation) Families > Europe, Eastern. Families > Baltic States. Families > Soviet Union. Families > Russia (Federation) Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Part I. 1940s - 1980s: 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. 1990s - 2000s: 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.