A socially patterned epidemic of deaths of despair is a signal feature of American society in
the twenty-first century, involving rising mortality from substance use disorders and self-harm …

An unprecedented mortality crisis befell the former socialist countries between 1989 and
1995, representing one of the greatest demographic shocks of the period after the Second …

The last remaining gap in the national accounts of Russia and the USSR in the twentieth
century, 1913 to 1928, includes the Great War, the Civil War, and postwar recovery. Filling …

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40 percent surge in deaths
between 1990 and 1994. Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among …

Background Population-level data suggest that economic disruptions in the early 1990s
increased working-age male mortality in post-Soviet countries. This study uses individual …

This book constitutes an up-to-date treatment of Russia's economic development and
economic policies since 2000, when Vladimir Putin became the President of Russia. After …

Transition economies in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) and the former
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), currently known as the Commonwealth of …

An unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the 1990s, causing around
seven million excess deaths. We enter the debate about the causes of this crisis by …

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In May 2006, Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced a radical new package of pronatalist
policies designed to halt, and possibly reverse, the steep decline in Russia's birth rate over …