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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Collection of six works on peasant housing, family, "lichnoe podsobnoe khoziastvo", and demography in Siberia from the end of the 19th century to the 1980s.
This book describes birth, marriage, and burial customs of various Finno-Ugrian peoples. The author points to the adverse influence of education and urbanization on rituals, to modification of rituals, and their current formal use.
[ Demographic policy in Belarussia, Russia, and Ukraine : ] Moscow: Ekon-Inform, 2009 Language: Russian
Price: $ 12.00
This brochure analyzes the recent strategic decisions that affect demographic policy in Belorussia, Russia, and Ukraine. The author describes the goals, tasks and the steps in their realization. as well as the connections among these programs and special measures of help for families.
This is the thirteenth issue of the quarterly Nestor. The current volume includes seven memoirs accompanied with comments on sources historiography of Russian family archives. Contents: Attitude towards children in the Old-Russian Orthodox culture; Education in the families of the nobility in the early 19th century: Future Decembrists; Memoirs about childhood; Teenage recidivism: Juvenile delinquency of the mid-1930s: Documents; and more.
[ Birth and upbringing of children in families of Turkmen-city dwellers : ] Ashgabat: Ylym, 1993 Language: Russian
Price: $ 22.00
This book deals with the complex of traditions and rituals of giving birth and raising children in Turkmenistan towns and cities. The author compares these traditions with analogous ones of the neighboring people in Central Asia, and draws conclusions about mutual and specific features of the cultural family traditions of the Turkmen.
[ Women of Russia and Europe on the edge of a new time : ] Moscow: Institut Etnologii i Antropologii im. Miklukho-Maklaia RAN, 1996 Language: Russian
Price: $ 17.00
This book studies the history of women in Russia and Western Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, their role in family and society, rights, education, marriage and divorce. Includes bibliographic references.
A study of traditional forms of families and their structure among the Chukchi, one of the small peoples of the North of Russia (about 15,000). Both types of families, interethnic and monoethnic, were studied.
[ Marriage and family in the Karel`skaia ASSR in 1950-1970s : ] Petrozavodsk: Institut Iazyka, Literatury I Istorii, 1992 Language: Russian
Price: $ 19.00
This monograph contains a comparative study of marriage and family life in several ethnic groups living in Karelia in the postwar years. It is based primarily on government statistics and ethnographic and sociological studies conducted in 1979.
[ The Topic of family and clan in the works of Saltykov-Shchedrin against the literary context of the epoch : ] Moscow: IMLI - Nasledie, 1999 Language: Russian
Price: $ 12.00
Family and kinship relationships occupy an important place in works of the outstanding Russian writer Saltykov-Shchedrin. The author studies his personal and family history, opinions on this subject of his generation, and how all of these factors influenced his major works.
Family and kin are the cornerstones of the culture of Old Believers-Pomortsy. This ethnos managed to keep many old and even ancient Russian traditions and practice them in their own lives. This monograph describes their family and marriage institution; publishes, translates into modern Russian, comments, and analyzes one of the oldest manuscripts found in an Old Believer prayer house, A Short Explanation of Fleshly Kinship and Definition of Degrees of Kinship Which Allow or Disallow Marriage (pp.
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