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Modernization, value change and fertility in the Soviet Union
Focusing on social change in the Soviet Union, this work explores the way in which the social, economic and political transformations encompassed by modernisation affect values and behaviours. Its analytical focus is the family and the system of norms and values governing sex roles and familial relations.
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Century of State Murder
A fascinating demographic study of Russian society through the 20th century.
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From red to gray
Conventional wisdom holds that aging populations are unfavorable for economic growth because of their potential impacts on labor supply, productivity, and savings. When this is coupled with the increased spending pressures because of pension requirements and health care, aging societies are likely to face serious fiscal problems. This report addresses these concerns in the unique context of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union where many countries are aging rapidly without the economic resources and institutional capacity of other aging societies in Western Europe and Japan.
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A century of state murder? : death and policy in twentieth-century Russia
A fascinating demographic study of Russian society through the 20th century.
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“On the Social-Economic Front”: The Polemics of Shtetl Research during the Stalin Revolution
Argument This article explores the relationship between ideology and statistical knowledge in Soviet Yiddish scholarship during the first Five-Year Plan and Cultural Revolution. Specifically, it examines the political status of Yiddish-language socioeconomic research as a tool of state building in the shtetls (small market towns) of the former Pale of Jewish Settlement. Historically, many Jewish inhabitants of the shtetl worked as economic middlemen between city and countryside, a function that became politically untenable after 1917. The Soviet regime sponsored Yiddish socioeconomic data collection in order to monitor its efforts to transform the occupational structure of shtetl Jewry. Accordingly, this data was expected to demonstrate the steady self-disintegration of the shtetl as an obsolete artifact of the old regime. In fact, these Soviet Yiddish narratives inadvertently highlighted the endurance of the shtetl in Soviet life at both the concrete and discursive levels. A close reading of these sources provides insight into how a segment of the Soviet Jewish intelligentsia attempted to align itself within the new state's scientific establishment by fusing modern Jewish social scientific knowledge with Marxist-Leninist principles. In the polemics of the “shtetl problem” we find an example of how Soviet yidishe visnshaft registered the constantly shifting perceptions of ideological orthodoxy and deviation among Jewish Communists, and provoked international debate among Jewish demographers and economists as to the political use and abuse of statistics.
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Sources for the Demographic Study of the Jews in the Former Soviet Union
This chapter examines the sources of data use in demographic study of Jews in the former Soviet Union. It explains that Russian Jewish studies were based on census results and vital and migration statistics, the role of Soviet internal passport as a basis for Jewish statistics and the consequences of the elimination of compulsory ethnic identification in the post-Soviet Slavic countries. It also discusses tsarist and Soviet statistical legacies and the developments during the last quarter century.
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Migration, displacement and identity in post-soviet Russia
Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, around 25 million ethnic Russians found themselves politically and culturally displaced, forming a new 'Russian minority' in each of the newly independent states. Since then, around 3 million Russians have either chosen or been forced to return to Russia... Using completely new empirical data drawn from in-depht interviews with almost 200 forced migrants and refugees, the author's extensively researched study explores the experience of reintegration from the perspective of those displaced. She asks how the experience of these self-confessed 'other' Russians informs an understanding of contemporary Russian society and, in particular, the problematic reconstruction of a post-Soviet Russian identity. The study also places the experience of Russian returnees in the context of the wider political significance of the Russian 'diaspora' question. In so doing it develops a critical appraisal of current Russian Federation and regional migration policy. (DIPF/orig.).
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