Preface

This volume is an outgrowth of a June 5-6, 1995 conference at which a group of Russian demographers presented the results of their pioneering research on Russia's demographic "crisis" to American colleagues from RAND, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, and the International Programs Center of the U.S. Bureau of the Census. This conference was jointly sponsored by RAND's Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Center for Demography and Human Ecology of the Russian Academy of Science's Institute of Economic Forecasting as part of a multi-year program of collaborative research, training, and institution-building on which they embarked in October, 1994.

On behalf of both of these centers, we would like to thank the Carnegie Corporation of New York for its support of this program. We would also like to give special thanks to Dr. Julie DaVanzo, Director of RAND's Center for the Study of the Family in Economic Development, who organized the conference at which the reports in this volume were first presented and, with the help of Gwendolyn Farnsworth, edited these reports for publication. Finally, we would like to thank Victor Agadjanian and Jane Siegel for their invaluable assistance in making this publication possible.

Dr. Jeremy R. Azrael, Director RAND Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Dr. Anatoly G. Vishnevsky, Director Center for Demography and Human Ecology Institute of Economic Forecasting Russian Academy of Sciences

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