Avdeev (Alexandre), Monnier (Alain). - A Survey of Modem Russian Fertility This article based on unpublished data presents birth rate trends during this century and analyses in greater detail the fertility of cohorts born after 1910. During this period, fertility in Russia changed from being...

Avdeev (Alexandre), Blum (Alain), Troitskaja (Irina). - The History of Abortion Statistics in Russia and the USSR from 1917 to 1991 The history of abortion and abortion statistics in the USSR between 1917 and 1991 is particular. Subjected to the vagaries of population policies during this...

During the nineteenth century, the Russian family existed within a particular institutional and social context, very different from that of Western Europe. The constraints surrounding and shaping family formation, and especially marriage, were very strong and diverse in nature. They arose...

European population growth has slowed over the last thirty years, with a steadily decreasing excess of births over deaths. Net migration is now a major contributor and in some countries plays a decisive role in maintaining positive population growth. This general trend is common to most European...

Avdeev (Alexandre), Blum (Alain), Zakharov (Serge), Andreev (Evgenij). - The reaction of a heterogeneous population to perturbation. An interpretative model of mortality trends in Russia The rapid increase in mortality in Russia during the past ten years is perplexing. Several authors have...

Avdeev (Alexandre), Blum (Alain), Zakharov (Serguei), Andreev (Evgeny).- The reaction of a heterogeneous population to perturbation. An interpretative model of mortality trends in Russia The rapid increase in mortality in Russia during the past ten years is perplexing. Several authors have...

Avdeev Alexandre, Monnier Alain.- Russian nuptiality: a little-understood and complex phenomenon The first part of this article takes the form of a presentation of the fundamental characteristics of Russian nuptiality over the last three decades. Russia was for long characterised by an early and...

Monnier Alain. ? The effects of family policies in the German Democratic Republic. A re-evaluation. Measures taken by the government of the German Democratic Republic in 1976 to increase the birth rate in that country had an undeniable immediate impact. The number of births increased by 37 per...