THE WORK OF PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS OF THE CHUVASH ASSR ON STRENGTHENING THE FAMILY (on the materials of the Chuvash regional council of the Militant Atheists League)

Inna Yu. SEMENOVA

DOI: 10.47026/2712-9454-2020-1-3-53-61

Key words

the Chuvash ASSR, cultural and educational societies, the Chuvash Regional Council of the Militant Atheists League, propaganda-anti-religious activities in the field of marriage and the family, the state policy of the ChASSR regarding the family

Annotation

The article is devoted to the activities of the public organization of the Chuvash ASSR, which launched its intense activity in the territory of the national region in the 30–40s of the 20^th century. On the basis of unpublished sources contained in the State Historical Archive of the Chuvash Republic, the article analyzes the work of the Chuvash Regional Council of the Militant Atheists League (1927–1941) in the direction of anti-religious education in the family. The author notes that religious dogmata which for many centuries had been defining the marital sphere were subjected to criticism and persecution by the proletarians, which could not but affect the family values and principles in undereducated workers’-and-peasants’ families of the Chuvash.

According to the results of the study, the state policy of the Soviet power concerning marriage and family is determined; the conclusion is made about a significant influence of this public organization on the family; attention is drawn on its positive aspects of work in lower class families of workers’ and peasants’ families of Chuvashia. At the same time, the article notes discontent with the cultural and religious transformations which were carried out among some of undereducated inhabitants of the Republic, especially female workers and peasants, who were afraid of possible families breakdown due to their equalization in rights with men, increased female political activity (the work of female sectors of the ACP(b) Women’s Department and territorial organizations of women’s movements as well as due to the social policy for protecting motherhood and infancy carried out by the Soviet power.

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Information about the author

Inna Yu. Semenova – Post-Graduate Student, Russian History Department; Senior Lecturer of Civil Legal Disciplines Department, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (iysemenova@mail.ru).

For citations

Semenova I.Yu. THE WORK OF PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS OF THE CHUVASH ASSR ON STRENGTHENING THE FAMILY (on the materials of the Chuvash regional council of the Militant Atheists League). Historical Search, 2020, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 53–61. DOI: 10.47026/2712-9454-2020-1-3-53-61 (in Russian).

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