John Bushnell's analysis of previously unstudied church records and
provincial archives reveals surprising marriage patterns in Russian
peasant villages in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some villages
the rate of unmarried women reached as high as 70 percent. The
religious group most closely identified with female peasant
marriage aversion was the Old Believer Spasovite covenant, and
Bushnell argues that some of these women might have had more agency
in the decision to marry than more common peasant tradition
ordinarily allowed. Bushnell explores the cataclysmic social and
economic impacts these decisions had on the villages, sometimes
dragging entire households into poverty and ultimate dissolution.
In this act of defiance, this group of socially, politically, and
economically subordinated peasants went beyond traditional acts of
resistance and reaction.
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