75 years have passed since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, yet its demographic
consequences, felt by Russia throughout all of this time, even now have not been completely …

As a social institution, schooling is remarkably resilient, yet in many ways quite conservative.
In Russia, its resiliency has been demonstrated over the past 15 years under repeated …

The 1998 Russian financial crisis weakened the reformers' argument that the misery
accompanying shock therapy was temporary, and instead shone the spotlight on elites. In …

We have seen that the shortcomings of the social welfare system became one of the
vulnerabilities of the Soviet regime, which enabled reformers to harness the social question …

During the first few years of the post-communist transition, the value of pensions fell, and
pension arrears appeared in parts of Russia in the mid-1990s. The legislature focussed …

This study addresses modern types of families in the East-Kazakhstan region and their role
in the development of population. Using a sample of East-Kazakhstani women interviewed …

One-parent families in the East-Kazakhstan region Abstract This paper addresses single-
parent families in the East-Kazakhstan region and their role in the development of …