"In Russia during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, snokhachestvo was a rather widespread type of sexual crime. [...] With the modernization taking place in Russia during this time, the countryside witnessed: the disintegration of large patriarchal families into small nuclear families, and the gradual transition of the majority of the peasantry from the traditional sphere of customary law to the official normative one. This led to significant emancipation of women within families, a transformation of peasant views, and the near complete disappearance of snokhachestvo as a shameful phenomenon in peasant families.”
Fedorov, S. G. (2015). Snokhachestvo and Lynching in the Customary Law of Russian and Siberian Villages in the Second Half of the 19th - Early 20th Centuries. Historical, Philosophical, Political and Legal Sciences, Cultural Studies and Art History. Questions of Theory and Practice, (11-1), 185-188.
