The power about minor citizens: the childhood in family policy of the soviet Russia 1917—1930

Abstract

This article about a legal status of children in the Soviet family as one of problems of children’s
daily occurrence. The family legislation in Russia has considerably changed after October revolution
of 1917. Marriage has stopped being church sacrament. Legitimate and illegitimate children have been
balanced in the rights, the relations of children and parents are reconsidered. The concept “parental
power” has disappeared from acts, the alienated “parental rights” have appeared. The state began to
interfere with family life actively, to give it economic support, to control process of education of the
child. In article situation of children in a family before and later the revolution is compared, the family
policy of RSFSR in 1920th and 1930th is analyzed. This policy wasn’t uniform: if in the 1920th the
family was considered as the dying-off bourgeois remnant, then in the 1930th it becomes the major
social institute. There is a return to traditional values, abortions are forbidden.