Transformation of the social role of woman, family and marriage in multinational Russia of the 1920s

The paper is devoted to the evolution of the role of a woman in society, family and marriage institutions in Russia after the revolutionary events of 1917. In the 1920s, the development of matrimonial relations had a liberal orientation and was held under the conditional motto “less state”. The issues of legitimization of an actual (civil) marriage, which had the same status as a marriage registered in the state bodies in the RSFSR of 1927-1944, are considered. The social status of rural women and the matrimonial behavior of the peasant population are analyzed. It is emphasized that rural women were less influenced by revolutionary ideas about free forms of relations between men and women and the new sexual morality. The village with its institutions of social (public) control preserved the traditional way of life of rural residents and entrenched reproduction types of population in the 1920s, in conditions of mitigation of exogenous factors.