There is also a need for supplementing narrowly specialized investigations of small areas with a broader view of population systems in general. In light of recent trends, projections of the population of the USSR by the year 2000 are put at 320 to 325 million, or somewhere between the middle...
agriculture lagged behind industry and was less and less capable of meeting the growing needs of the urban population for food products or the needs of industry for agricultural raw materials. Only by replacing small-scale commodity peasant agriculture with large-scale mechanized production, which woul...
To better understand this massive entity, maps were a favourite tool for Soviet planners and citizens alike. By analyzing them, we can gain insight into the USSR’s global positioning, as well as its internal structures, extensive natural resources, population density, and location of major cities...
Here’s Galkin’s parody, he has copied Ze’s voice very accurately – see @ 2:48. It’s pretty funny, but only if you understand Ukrainian. While offering a poll to the population, Ze is leaving the set a few times, apparently to partake. He also asks whether people think if ‘t...
religion; the Chinese Christian population equates to about one percent of the country’s 1.4 billion inhabitants, meaning that few recognise the festival’s religious significance. This is ever more true in the more remote, western regions, where it is likely seen by many as an alien ...
PopulationEthnic GroupsCultural BackgroundThis is an analysis of Jewish emigration from the USSR from 1968 to the present with emphasis on the situation in 1980. Between 1968 and 1980 a total of 250000 Jews left the USSR the peak year being 1979 with 50000 emigrants. Total emigration declined ...
With Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan, the state sought increased political control of agriculture to feed the rapidly growing urban population and obtain a source of foreign currency through increased cereal exports. This brought about widespread collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union, and...
(province). Some republics, with relatively small population and no "oblast" subdivisions, had one license plate series for entire territory. In most of provinces third letter specified type of ownership: private or government. In USSR all businesses were owned by government. All trucks, buses, ...
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic accounted for roughly half of the population of the Soviet Union as did those of the Russian ethnicity. Aug-14-13 RookFile: Evidently Beliavsky thought Larsen and Seirawan was "fresh meat", given the way he plowed right over them. Aug-15-13 ...
population, of course), with the Canadian and Australian governments having implemented "multiculturalism" as official state policy (at the expense of the pre-existing Canadian and Australian cultures), and most of all, with the huge wave of third-world immigration into the West, supported by ...