Mobilität und Ordnung. Eine Rechts- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte deutsch-russländischer Eheschließungen von 1875–1926

This article focuses onGerman-Russian marriages between the late nineteenth century and the 1920s, showing how increasing personal mobility and new migration patterns came into conflict with often rigid legal and administrative systems. Transnational couples frequently ended up caught between the orders of nation states and empires, and it was mostly women who bore the consequences such as statelessness. Patrilinear Civil Law thus had significant gender specific consequences. The study begins with the introduction of civil marriage in the German Empire and ends with the year 1926 when the new Soviet code on family law undermined the practice of legal marriage. At the same time, both states made German-Russian marriages considerably more difficult due to tendencies of isolation and ethnonational closures in the inter-war period

Family law · gender and law · German Empire · international marriage · Interwar period · Legal history · Migration · Personal mobility · Political science · Social History · Soviet family law · Soviet-German relations · Statelessness · European history and politics · German History and Society · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Historical Legal Studies and Society · Legal and cultural studies analysis · Soviet and Russian History