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Author Parsons, Michelle A., 1972- author.

Title Dying unneeded : the cultural context of the Russian mortality crisis / Michelle A. Parsons
Published Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Moscow -- Paradox -- War -- Work -- Shock -- Mortality -- Death of society -- Freedom -- Conclusion
Summary "Reveals the flaws in existing explanations of Russia's mortality crisis, and offers a persuasive, alternative explanation based on Russian notions of being unneeded"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mortality -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
Mortality -- Russia (Federation) -- Psychological aspects
Marginality, Social -- Russia (Federation)
Mortality -- trends
Life Expectancy -- trends
Social Conditions -- trends
Social Marginalization -- trends
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Statistics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Marginality, Social
Mortality -- Social aspects
Social conditions
Mortalitet -- sociala aspekter.
Mortalitet -- psykologiska aspekter.
Socialt utstötta.
SUBJECT Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003621
Russia https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012426
Subject Russia (Federation)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826519740
0826519741
0826519725
9780826519726
0826519733
9780826519733