Gender Specifics of Russian Youths' Transition to Adulthood

The Russian youth’s transition to adulthood is a unique phenomenon. The transition to a different socio-economic system due to the collapse of the USSR provoked turbulent transformations in all spheres of society and certainly could not but affect the transition to adulthood. Gender differences in the transition to adulthood are a topical issue for Russia with its conflict between the youth and the government concerning the priority in the process of transition to adulthood. The current research paper has the goal of providing a broader perspective of research on Russian youth’s transition to adulthood via gender context analysis. Other underresearched aspects highlighted in this paper are the dynamics of objective and subjective factors of transition to adulthood in the youth’s narratives, the interconnection of transition to adulthood and the generational conflict in the Russian context as well as convergence and divergence of the gender-specific trajectories of transition to adulthood of the youth from Russia, developed and developing countries. This study was conducted within the framework of the Centre for Youth Studies’ project “Transition to adulthood of the Russian youth in the XXIst century: the generational analysis”