Soviet Union: Demographic Trends in the Soviet Union

A file containing documents concerning the Soviet population. Subjects covered in the file include the declining rate of population growth; the unwillingness of people to migrate to areas of labour shortage; the failure of various incentives to raise the birth rate; the possibility of ethnic Russians becoming a minority due to the rising populations of the Central Asian republics; and alarming rises in infant and adult male mortality.

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