JRL RESEARCH AND ANALYTICAL SUPPLEMENT, POLITICS AND SOCIETY, ECONOMY, Russian agriculture, Taxing the metal business, DEMOGRAPHY, post-Soviet transition, Foreign workers in post-Soviet Russia, EPIDEMIOLOGY, Syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, Cancer in decline, RUSSIA AND THE CIS, Russia's non-strategy for relations with Ukraine, Does Russia need Azerbaijan? CULTURE, mArina Aptekman, Criminal Song, Tokareva, HISTORY, LOOKING BACK AT STALINISM, Velikanova, Stalin

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JRL RESEARCH AND ANALYTICAL SUPPLEMENT
Issue No. 4
January 2002
Editor: Stephen D. Shenfield
shenfield@neaccess.net

Contents:

Introducing the issue

POLITICS AND SOCIETY
The Movement "In Defense of Childhood"
Paganism and neo-paganism

ECONOMY
The geo-economics of Russian agriculture
Heiko Pleines. Taxing the metal business

DEMOGRAPHY
The demographic cost of the post-Soviet transition
Foreign workers in post-Soviet Russia

EPIDEMIOLOGY
Syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases
Cancer in decline?

RUSSIA AND THE CIS
Russia's non-strategy for relations with Ukraine
Does Russia need Azerbaijan?

CULTURE
Marina Aptekman. Modern Russian History in the Mirror of Criminal Song
Stephen Shenfield on Viktoria Tokareva

HISTORY: LOOKING BACK AT STALINISM
Book review by Olga Velikanova
Jeffrey Brooks. Thank You, Comrade Stalin!
Book review by Stephen D. Shenfield
Sheila Fitzpatrick. Everyday Stalinism