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Since 1950, as Table 2.1 shows, the rural population of the Soviet Union has declined somewhat, while the number of urban residents has shown a continuous annual increase. At the start of the period the latter were in a minority, but by the early 1960s they had come to form the bare majority, and by 1984 they represented 65 per cent of the total population. The single most important influence underlying this major trend is the state-planned development of the economy, a necessary accompaniment of which has been the creation of new towns and the enlargement of existing ones in order to house the growing industrial workforce.
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Michael Ryan, The Organization of Soviet Medical Care (Basil Blackwell and Martin Robertson, 1978) p. 160.
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Ryan, M., Prentice, R. (1987). The Growth of Towns. In: Social Trends in the Soviet Union from 1950. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18883-3_3
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