Causes of divorce in modern Russia

The article presents results of the study of divorces and individual strategies of behavior after divorce in the present-day Russia. The relevance of the research problem is conditioned by the significantly poor conceptual and empirical elaboration of the post-divorce marital practices in Russia and of the remarriage market. It provides a review of the concepts of sociological studies of divorce and the results of a massive questionnaire survey of the residents in the city of Volgograd and in several districts of Volgograd oblast having experience of dissolution of the official marriage. There are given main socio-demographic characteristics of the subjects of remarriage market and quantitative characteristics of the post-divorce behavior. The article shows the decisive impact of subjective causes on the stability of marital relations and lack of the impact of objective factors, as well as rather strong orientation on remarriage.