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The main sources of quantitative data about the characteristics of Soviet families in the post-war period are the population censuses of 1959, 1970 and 1979. Before examining the picture which emerges from them, however, it is necessary to define what is meant in this context by the term ‘family’. According to the definition used for the censuses, it denotes a group of people who have a common residence, are linked by marriage or kinship and have shared finances. It excludes people who are not connected to other members of the family by ties of kinship, despite the fact that they may have the same residence.
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6 Ethnic Composition
L. I. Brezhnev, The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1972) p. 5.
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Ryan, M., Prentice, R. (1987). The Family and Marriage. In: Social Trends in the Soviet Union from 1950. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18883-3_6
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