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standards.
Specifically,
from the previous decade were replaced by topdown traditionalism, in which the state acted as
the civilizer, including the reintroduction of ethnic
heroes and Classics in arts and education, in light of
the dramatically increased literacy level; it also made
vast improvements in the area of hygiene, fighting
diseases, and infant mortality. For the family, this
meant a return to somewhat patriarchal family values
(but not in terms of pre-revolutionary property rights
of the patriarchs), sobriety, as well as pro-natalist
propaganda coupled with a ban on abortion, difficultto-obtain divorces, and mockery of irresponsible
Nursery schools and postpartum care for the worker and the
peasant. 1928. Source: materinstvo.ru.
In
part,
this
state-instituted
traditionalism
2 800 000
2 600 000
2 400 000
2 200 000
2 000 000
1 800 000
1 600 000
1 400 000
1 200 000
Births
1 000 000
Deaths
2008
2006
2004
2002
2000
1998
1996
1994
1992
1990
1988
1986
1984
1982
1980
1970
1960
800 000
Long-Term Prognosis
Despite such positive news, the sustainability of
these policies remains to be seen. One of the most
significant roadblocks is the time when those born
in the late 1990s the lowest point in the above
graph reach childbearing age and start their
own families. It would be very difficult for them to
compensate for the population loss and to create
The country needs your records. Every minute, there are 3 new
people born in Russia. 2009. Source: taken by author.
Results
Selected Sources
History
Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life
in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Hoffmann, David. Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms
of Soviet Modernity, 19171941. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2003.
Kappeler, Andreas. The Russian Empire: A Multi-Ethnic
History. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2001.
Statistics
Images
Snopkov, Aleksandr, Pavel Snopkov, and Aleksandr
Shkliaruk. Materinstvo i detstvo v russkom plakate.
Moscow: Kontakt-kultura, 2006.
Posters used here: materinstvo.ru/art/6214/.
Nina Kouprianova, PhD Candidate, U. of Toronto |
@: ninakay@gmail.com.