Book Reviews

Population, French Edition (Population-F) publishes a selection of book reviews under the supervision of Kamel Kateb, which is not as yet translated into English. Issue no. 4, 2009 includes a thematic selection of reviews on "From the Russian Empire to contemporary Russia: change and continuity" coordinated by Tatiana EREMENKO, Institut national d'études démographiques and Institut d'études démographiques, Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV.

"From the Russian Empire to contemporary Russia: change and continuity"

Vladimir BORISOV, Demograficheskaia dezorganizatsiia Rossii: 1897-2007. Izbrannye demograficheskie trudy [Demographic disorganization in Russia: 1897-2007. A selection of demographic studies], Moscow, Nota Bene, 2007, 752 p. Reviewed by Alexandre AVDEEV

Anatoly VISHNEVSKY (ed.), Demograficheskaia modernizatsiia Rossii: 1900-2000 [The demographic modernization of Russia: 1900-2000], Moscow, Novoe Izdatel'stvo, 2006, 602 p. Reviewed by Maria AVDEEVA

Juliette CADIOT, Le laboratoire impérial. Russie-URSS : 1870-1940, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2007, 266 p. Reviewed by Kamel KATEB

Catherine GOUSSEFF-KLEIN, L'exil russe : la fabrique du réfugié apatride (1920-1939), CNRS Éditions, 2008, 335 p. Reviewed by Kamel KATEB

Martine MESPOULET, Construire le socialisme par les chiffres : enquêtes en URSS de 1917 à 1991, Paris, INED, Études et enquêtes historiques, 2008, 235 p. Reviewed by Matthieu SOLIGNAC

Vsesoiuznaia perepis' naseleniia 1937 goda. Obshchie itogi. Sbornik dokumentov i materialov [The general population census of 1937: results. Collection of documents and articles], Moscow, Rosspen, 2007, 320 p. Reviewed by Tatiana EREMENKO

Valerii STEPANOV and Valerii TISHKOV, Etnokul'turnyi oblik Rossii: perepis' 2002 goda [The ethnocultural image of Russia: the census of 2002], Moscow, Nauka, 2007, 516 p. Reviewed by Elena FILIPPOVA

Shokhrat KADYROV, Tainy turkmenskoi demografii [The mysteries of Turkmen demography], Moscow, Ifecas, 2009, 328 p. Reviewed by Alexandre AVDEEV

General presentation of three books published by the Centre de recherche sur les politiques sociales et les études de genre Cécile LEFÈVRE

1. Pavel ROMANOV, Elena IARSKAIA-SMIRNOVA (eds.), Sovetskaia sotsial'naia politika 1920 kh - 1930-kh godov. Ideologiia i povsednevnost' [Soviet social policy, 1920-1930. Ideology and daily life], Moscow, Variant, CSPGS, 2007, 432 p. Reviewed by Cécile LEFÈVRE

2. Elena IARSKAIA-SMIRNOVA, Pavel ROMANOV, Natalia LEBINA (eds.), Sovetskaia sotsial'naia politika. Stseny i deŏistvuiushchie litsa. 1940-1985 [Soviet social policy. Contexts and actors, 1940-1985], Moscow, Variant, CSPGS, 2008, 376 p. Reviewed by Cécile LEFÈVRE

3. Pavel ROMANOV, Elena IARSKAIA-SMIRNOVA (dir.) Sotsial'naia politika v sobremennoŏi Rossii. Reformy i povsednevnost' [Social policy in Russia today. Reforms and daily life], Moscow, Variant, CSPGS, 2008, 453 p. Reviewed by Lidia PROKOFIEVA

Lilia OVCHAROVA and Lidia PROKOFIEVA (eds.), Sem'ia i deti v Rossii: osobennosti sovremennoŏi zhizni i vzgliad v budushchee [Families and children in Russia: current situation and future prospects], Moscow, ISESP RAS, 2009, 274 p. Reviewed by Tatiana EREMENKO