Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- List of tables (page viii)
- Acknowledgments (page x)
- 1. The origins of the Bolshevik vision: Love unfettered, women free (page 1)
- 2. The first retreat: Besprizornost' and socialized child rearing (page 59)
- 3. Law and life collide: Free union and the wage-earning population (page 101)
- 4. Stirring the sea of peasant stagnation (page 144)
- 5. Pruning the "bourgeois thicket": Drafting a new Family Code (page 185)
- 6. Sexual freedom or social chaos: The debate on the 1926 Code (page 214)
- 7. Controlling reproduction: Women versus the state (page 254)
- 8. Recasting the vision: The resurrection of the family (page 296)
- Conclusion: Stalin's oxymorons: Socialist state, law, and family (page 337)
- Index (page 345)