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We mentioned in the introduction that efforts have been made to tackle the demographic crisis on a practical as well as an ideological level. Yet improvements in material conditions do not automatically increase the birth-rate; indeed, Soviet demographers have shown that they can have the opposite effect.1 They have, accordingly, argued that it is also necessary to convince people that they want more children — to form in them, as one writer put it, ‘a thirst for fatherhood and motherhood’.2
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9 The Practical Application of Soviet Ideas on Sex Differences
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Attwood, L. (1990). The Practical Application of Soviet Ideas on Sex Differences. In: The New Soviet Man and Woman. Studies in Soviet History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21030-5_10
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