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...

During the 1990s in Russia both abortion and fertility rates declined rapidly. In the present paper, we shed some light on the extent to which these developments were related to increased use of modern contraception. Two surveys with retrospective information on contraceptive calendars reveal...

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), 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 - A Survey of Modem Russian Fertility This article based on unpublished data presents birth rate trends during this century and analyses in greater detail the fertility of cohorts born after 1910.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...