Pressat Roland. ? The First U.S.S.R. life Tables (1958-1959). After 1940 every data already scarce on the Soviet Union population disappeared, until 1955 when some of them were published again but without any reference to periods preceding 1950. Generally these data have a very global character....

Lantoine Catherine and Pressât Roland. ? New Aspects of Infant Mortality. The considerable decline in infant mortality since the end of the last war occurred at first mainly in exogenous mortality, i.e. deaths which occurred between the ages of 1 and 12 months. Recently, however, changes in...