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Human Fertility in Russia Since the Nineteenth Century
By (Author) Ansley Johnson Coale
By (author) Barbara A. Anderson
By (author) Erna Hrm
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Sociology: family and relationships
304.6320947
Hardback
314
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
595g
The birth rate in late-nineteenth century Russia was high and virtually constant, but by 1970 it had fallen by about two-thirds. Although similar reductions have occurred in other countries, the decline in Russian fertility is of particular interest because it took place in a setting of great ethnic heterogeneity and under economic and social insti