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This book is intended to provide the student and the general reader with easy access to a range of information about one of the two most powerful states in the contemporary world. The Soviet authorities issue very few English language publications which contain precise numerical data about societal change, and none at all which could be classed as a wide-ranging collection of social indicators. Having identified this gap in the literature, the authors aimed to fill it by bringing together between two covers such statistics as can be obtained from the relevant Russian sources.
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1 Population Change
Murray Feshbach, ‘The Age Structure of Soviet Population: Preliminary Analysis of Unpublished Data’, Soviet Economy, 1985, Vol. 1, 2, pp. 177–93.
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Ryan, M., Prentice, R. (1987). Introduction. In: Social Trends in the Soviet Union from 1950. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18883-3_1
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