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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2017
What are the relations between parents and children in the USSR? What is the Soviet policy towards parental authority? The importance of these two questions reaches beyond the family itself because they can be used as political and social barometers.
Certain differences between two successive generations are a fairly normal phenomenon; the progress of civilization and of social life over a twenty-five year period — the average length of time separating parents and children — makes these discrepancies quite comprehensible. But if these differences in viewpoint become violent conflicts, it is proof that the social life of the country is in a state of ferment. The official attitude in such cases is characteristic of the regime.
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22 This theory, which was popular among the younger generation during the period of militant communism, maintained that sexual intercourse was as unimportant and casual as drinking a glass of water.
