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The rate at which the Soviet population is being renewed has clear implications for the future size of the workforce and for the Soviet Union’s geopolitical role as a superpower. In the recent past, concern over the birth rate has led the Party and government to implement a wide range of measures whose general purpose was spelt out in Guidelines for the economic and social development of the USSR for 1981–1985. Among the objectives specified in that document are the following: ‘Pursue an effective demographic policy, promote consolidation of the family as the principal nucleus of socialist society and ensure the provision of better conditions for women to combine motherhood with active participation in labour and social activities’.1
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M. S. Bedni, Demograficheskie faktory zdorovya ( Moscow: Meditsina, 1984 ) p. 111.
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Ryan, M., Prentice, R. (1987). Patterns of Child-bearing. In: Social Trends in the Soviet Union from 1950. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18883-3_5
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