In this study we analyze transitions to first marriage in Kyrgyzstan – one of the post-Soviet states of Central Asia. We use retrospective survey data collected in 2011/12 that contain full partnership histories of a representative sample of men and women in that country. We estimate hazard regression models to examine competing risks of arranged and non-arranged marriage among Kyrgyz and Uzbek...

The relevance of the paper lies in emergence a new type fascism Russian Federation – ruscism, which 21st century returned humanity to understanding that revival most dangerous forms state-legal regime is possible. purpose study define analyse its origin as separate phenomenon and development constituent elements, identify similar distinctive features with classical varieties. Methods dialectics...

Introduction. This article describes the feedback between Soviet people and executive authorities of autonomous republics from mid-1950s to 1980s on example activities Councils Ministers Mari, Mordovian Chuvash Autonomous Socialist Republics. The research focuses reaction their subordinate bodies letters, received citizens. Materials Methods. study was based materials State Archive Republic Mar...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation ("Russia") and former soviet satellite countries and republics of Central and Eastern Europe ("Soviet Bloc") have struggled with privatizing housing and establishing market-based residential mortgage systems. This thesis addresses the recent efforts of three former Soviet Bloc countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary and Polan...

Light therapy is still used to treat a number of common diseases in Russia. The practice is firmly anchored in history: Soviet clinical practice was divorced from the emerging field of evidence-based medicine. Medical researchers were cut off from international medical research and scientific literature, with much Soviet scientific activity based on a particular socialist ideology. In this stud...

Background The dissolution of the USSR resulted in independence for constituent republics but left them battling an unstable economic environment and healthcare. Increases in injection drug use, prostitution, and migration were all widespread responses to this transition and have contributed to the emergence of an HIV epidemic in the countries of former Soviet Union. Researchers have begun to i...

Restructuring and reorienting socialist economies is an integral but also deeply problematic aspect of their post-socialist transformation. 1 The full range of problems involved here emerges most clearly when one recognizes at the outset that economic activities themselves are always socially embedded and socially regulated and that they are also overdetermined by various geo-political, socio-c...

The subject of the study is process formation Soviet federal socio-territorial space in period 1917 – 1922, which includes design state borders Russia, definition principles Federation (internationalism, right nations to self-determination), regions composition RSFSR, order distribution rigions and powers between center regions, scope such subjects reference. purpose this was trends diversity i...

The purpose of the article is to study essence right peoples self-determination on example some post-Soviet countries. methodological basis consists methods cognition (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, analogy, comparison), general scientific methods, formal-logical method interpretation law, etc. components base are objectivity and a combination critical rational, constructive approac...