What causes the unrestricted right to divorce?

• Main Authors: A. B. Sinelnikov, O. V. Dorokhina
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Publishing House of Lomonosov Moscow State University 2015-09-01
• Series: Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta: Seriâ 18, Sociologiâ i Politologiâ
• Subjects: брачно-семейное законодательство; законные причины для развода; внебрачные рождения; либерализация законов о браке и разводе; кризис семьи; ценности семейного образа жизни; matrimonial legislation; legitime reasons for divorce; illegitimate births; liberalization of the marriage and family legislation; crisis of family; values of family lifestyle
• Online Access: https://vestnik.socio.msu.ru/jour/article/view/108

Article is devoted to changes of the Russian family legislation in the XX century. Laws of the Russian Empire provided very few reasons for divorce. At the end of XIX - the beginning of the XX centuries the part of the intellectuals demanded liberalization of the legislation. The reforms which happened after October revolution of 1917 considerably changed all system of family values that led to strengthening of crisis of a family.