Peasants Kept For A Communal Life And After

Peasants kept for a communal life and after reform of 1861 (to that there were many reasons) and, hence, family traditions both family hierarchy, and the general bases of relations "M" and in Russia owing to huge almost indestructible have reached abrupt revolutionary events of 1917 when all fell and all. Yes after all fell only from above. All it was no more, than ripples on a surface of oceanic thickness. Humanistic ideas of the great Russian literature and art on which we habitually define developed as if in all Russian society the advanced ethical standards, actually were the advanced views of extremely thin layer of spiritual elite, to broad masses practically relations not having. Yes, Aksinja Astakhov was able to love and feel not less strongly, than noblewoman Anna Karenina, but Grishka Melehov had no rights to protect Aksinju from a brutal beating of its lawful husband and owner Stepan, and the world was on Stepan's party! And if humanistic precepts and Pushkin and Lermontov, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Maxim Gorkogo's spiritual breaks were away from that enormous current which defined a real moral life real in ten and hundreds millions Russians what "influence" could render on it a rash which sometimes appeared here and there on fences cities? Certainly, it was possible in Vladimir, say, in 1918 to publish such decree:" Each unmarried woman, since 18-year-old age, appears property of the state and is obliged to be registered in Bureau of Free Love where men at the age from 19 till 50 years can choose to themselves the woman, irrespective of its desire ", but what it changed in a life and a life of national thicknesses? Certainly, it was possible to publish in the same 1918 in Kronstadt and to extend, for example, in Saratov and Vyatka" the Decree about cancellation of private possession by women "(item 1: Since March, 1st, 1918 the right of private possession is cancelled by the women who have reached of age from 17 till 32 years.