Формиране на семейството и влиянието на тоталитарния социализъм
Family Formation and the Impact of the Totalitarian Socialism

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the impact of the political regime on family formation in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria. Homogeneisation of first-marriage and reproductive behaviour is usually explained by the introduction of pronatal population policies. This and other explanations of the pattern are insufficient. The author suggests a hypothesis which states that the totalitarian regime delimits diffusion of new benaviour and therefore contributes to the preservation of traditional behaviour. It then becomes necessary to distinguish diffusion and adaptation as methods of distribution of new behaviour. Thus in several decades a specific type of family formation pattern came to prevail which was not observed anywhere else around the world. It could be expected that family formation will change after 1990 when the factors specific to the previous regime are not valid any more. This could help towards a better understanding of some changes in fertility and nuptiality.

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