Jan 13, 2017 · Just two years later and minus Soviet bloc countries, Russia’s life expectancy dropped to 64.5 years, according to data analysis from the World Bank. By 2014, Russians live longer on average ...

Mar 11, 2005 · Scientists have calculated that since the beginning of the 1990s, some 8 million Russians have died prematurely. The mortality rate has risen one-and-a-half times over the same period. In 2003, it ...

I'm considering making my own comic about 3 working class Russian delinquent youths (aged between 18 and 20) named Sergei, Vladimir and Leonid set in a fictional Russian city I made up called Vladniva, but I'm not Russian and have never been there (all my knowledge of what life there is like has been based on internet research).

May 04, 2015 · It was a demographic disaster. Stalin claimed in 1946 that there had been seven million Soviet deaths in WWII. In 1956 Khruschev revised that figure to 20 million. According to figures from today ...

Nov 07, 2017 · Few episodes in history capture the imagination quite like the Russian Revolution of 1917, undeniably one of the most important episodes of modern history. But a century later, what does it really ...

Although United Russia has a majority of over 60%, the CPRF is the second-largest political party in Russia. This means that there are still communists in the opposition and that quite a lot of Russians still believe in communism. The nation has evolved toward a parliamentary democracy, but as international watchdog organizations have ...

Feb 02, 2016 · The economics of degradation, as Gontmaher calls it, is the current trend for Russia, which he believes may continue not just for the next few years but maybe for another decade. According to Gontmaher, before the crisis of 2014-2016 the Russian society’s structure was as following: Rich: 1-2%. Middle class: 15-20%. Below middle class: 30-35%.

Oct 25, 2012 · The biggest moment in the life of a Russian is the day that they get married (followed closely by having children), because it revolves around the love that two people share. ... Russian women dress nicely to find a husband, while Russian men act chivalrously in order to find a wife. The most shocking part of Russian gender roles for Americans ...

Sep 07, 2017 · Dugin believes that it is the ultimate theological destiny of Russia to lead modern day Hyperborean societies — including not only Russia, but all of Eurasia, from Korea to India to Portugal — away from a corrupt earthly existence and back to the pure, divine spiritual knowledge of the original Hyperboreans, resulting in the end of our world and the transformation of …

Jan 29, 2020 · Stalin's Peasants by Sheila Fitzpatrick. In 1917, the majority of Russians were peasants, upon whose traditional ways of living and working Stalin's reforms wreaked a massive, bloody, and dramatic transformation. In this book, Fitzpatrick explores the effects of collectivization on Russia's peasants, in terms of both economic and socio-cultural ...

Feb 15, 2017 · The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin (2015) By Steven Lee Myers. Åslund, McFaul, and Sestanovich all recommend this account of the president’s ascent from a childhood of poverty ...

Aug 05, 2021 · As mentioned earlier, the second biggest political party’s status in Russia is still held by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The party has a long-standing history and is associated with many of the past glories of the country. Looking back at history, the origin of the CPRF goes back to the Russian Revolution of1917.

Feb 24, 2011 · The major difference between the Soviet Union and Russia is the eras in which they existed. The USSR lasted from 1917 to about 1991 while Russia continued from that point in time. Except for economic progress, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation are the same in terms of people and culture, although the Soviet Union has more ethnic ...