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The Russian Federation (Russia), the largest country in the world with a population of over 142 million, is composed of 21 republics and covers parts of two continents, Asia and Europe. The diversity of Russians reflects the degree of acculturation, individuality, and the variant characteristics of culture (see Chap. 1) as well as the physical size of the country. Under Communism all media were controlled, disseminating only information that the government wanted people to know. This chapter focuses on Russians who are immigrants to the US, most of whom are well educated. Given the complicated history of Russian immigration, most of the information in this chapter pertains to immigrants who emigrated in the latter part of the twentieth century.
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Purnell, L.D., Fenkl, E.A. (2019). People of Russian Heritage. In: Handbook for Culturally Competent Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21946-8_27
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