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If the home remained a safe space for families during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, why is it that the memories of women's domestic lives in Soviet Lithuania are so fragmented? In Family and the State in Soviet Lithuania, Dalia Leinarte deftly challenges the commonplace 'kitchen culture' idea that the home was a site of silent resistance where traditional Lithuanian values continued to be nurtured. Instead, this fascinating book reveals ...

Originating from discussions about the reasons for, and regional variations behind, the remarkable rise in cohabitation that started in the 1970s ¿ a rise that continues to this day ¿ this book explores the main stimuli behind cohabitation. This book was originally published as a special issue of The History of the Family.

This book investigates marriage and divorce in the nineteenth-century European territories of the Russian Empire. It uncovers the way a peasant community employed unsanctioned marital behaviour, such as cohabitation and bigamy, among others, in order to respond to the external factors that had an impact on the family life, including transmission of inheritance and household structure. Lithuania was part of the Tsarist Empire until 1914. This c...

Originating from discussions about the reasons for, and regional variations behind, the remarkable rise in cohabitation that started in the 1970s ¿ a rise that continues to this day ¿ this book explores the main stimuli behind cohabitation. This book was originally published as a special issue of The History of the Family.

This book investigates marriage and divorce in the nineteenth-century European territories of the Russian Empire. It uncovers the way a peasant community employed unsanctioned marital behaviour, such as cohabitation and bigamy, among others, in order to respond to the external factors that had an impact on the family life, including transmission of inheritance and household structure. Lithuania was part of the Tsarist Empire until 1914. This c...

For millions of people, the Soviet experience meant not only living through the torment of Stalinism and the GULAG, the unbelievable destiny of men and women during the 1917 Revolution, civil war, and the Second World War, or those breathtaking, gigantic Socialist construction projects. Many citizens of the former Soviet Union lived "ordinary lives in ordinary times", where the fate of men and women depended not on armed coercion, but Soviet i...