MODEL RUSINSKE PORODICE U VOJVODINI OD SREDINE XVIII DO SREDINE XX VEKA
THE MODEL OF THE RUTHENIAN FAMILY IN VOJVODINA FROM THE MID-18th TO THE MID-19th CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The work formulates and perceives several circles of subtopics which shed much brighter light on the model of the Ruthenian family of that period. The tendency of growth of family numbers had a significant impact on demographic expansion of the Ruthenian community. Religion and school (education and upbringing) played an important role in forming a “desirable” model of a Ruthenian family. The change of the social and economic circumstances and ownership relations after the 1848/1849 Revolution accelerated the penetration of capitalistic relations in the Ruthenian village as well as striving to acquire land and increase capital, which was reflected in the tendency of marrying at an early age or, in other words, forcing into marriage underage boys and girls, who were often in blood kinship. Due to the high mortality rate, widowers and widows often entered the second or even third marriage. It is very interesting for a scholar to study complex relationships in the families with children from the present and previous marriages. The war and war circumstances significantly influenced the changes and upheavals in family life. Two cultural and national organizations of the Ruthenians in the period between the two world wars had a very significant role in forming two different models of the Ruthenian family. Obviously, different social and economic conditions of life contributed to forming some characteristics of the Ruthenian family in the concrete historical periods and circumstances. Having that in mind, we consider it would be more productive if the further research were kept in the direction of studying all these factors which, during the two mentioned centuries, influenced the model of the Ruthenian family and its changes.

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