Models of Matrimonial Behavior Changes During Demographic Transition in West, East Germany and Russia

Student: Lonshchikova Iuliia

Educational Programme: Demography (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

The goal of this paper was to identify specific models for changing matrimonial behavior in Western, Eastern Germany and Russia: to find out exactly how a partnership is included in the 'standard' way of life, does it immediately become a 'trial marriage' or does the partnership first come after marriage as a secondary, auxiliary union, and only then is legitimized, moves to the very beginning of the matrimonial biography.

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