ABSTRACT
It is my intention that this study should have the status of an ethnographic report on a particular village, on domestic roles and relations and the way these are perceived by the villagers. It cannot encompass with great thoroughness and detail an analysis of national government policy, political behaviour towards the state and the nature of the national economy. There is nevertheless, always, a certain inevitability that significant statements must be made about the wider context of a ‘microstudy’, although it would not be feasible to expand on them at length. Furthermore, most British anthropologists are, relatively speaking, unfamiliar with Soviet materials and so more background information should be provided than, for example, is usually necessary in works on rural families in Greece or other countries in the Western world.
