Provides an overview of demographic trends and patterns in the republics of the Soviet Union through the twentieth century providing a comprehensive and detailed review of fertility, marriage and the family, age and mortality.

Foreword, List of Figures, List of Tables, Contributors, Introduction, I Fertility Trends and Patterns, II Family Dynamics and Changing Attitudes, III Components of Mortality Trends, IV Changes in Population Structure, Index

Wolfgang Lutz, Sergei Scherbov, Andrei Volkov