Population
Soviet population table by nationality, 1970
This table provides a general overview of the Soviet population in 1970, with a breakdown for the most populous national groups.
After the Wende: GDR Jokes D
George Orwell once wrote, "Every joke is a tiny revolution." In state-socialist societies that had (or have) totalitarian characteristics, individuals found clever ways to carve out areas of freedom for themselves.
Short Teaching Module: Surnames and Nationality
Images of 1989 tend to center on dramatic events in Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, or other major East European cities. However, many of the changes in Eastern Europe and the world were far more subtle but no less important.
Provision for the Restatement of Names and Surnames
Images of 1989 tend to center on dramatic events in Berlin, in Beijing, in Bucharest, and in Johannesburg, just to name a few. Visions of mass demonstration and popular uprising predominate.
Gender and Health in Latin America: Interview, Reproductive Rights (Brazil)
In the 1950s, when the first contraceptive pills were tested in Puerto Rico, politicians, health administrators, and Church officials worldwide began to discuss human reproduction in new ways.
Women and Stalinism: Newspaper, Women Workers
The increased presence of women in the workforce as a result of industrialization and other aspects of modernization during the 1930s was documented in government publications.
Women and Stalinism: Newspaper, Women’s Work
The increased presence of women in the workforce as a result of industrialization and other aspects of modernization during the 1930s was documented in government publications.
Women and Stalinism: Quantitative Evidence, Women's Education
The increased presence of women in the workforce as a result of industrialization and other aspects of modernization during the 1930s was documented in government publications.
Women and Stalinism: Quantitative Evidence, Women's Employment
The increased presence of women in the workforce as a result of industrialization and other aspects of modernization during the 1930s was documented in government publications.
SAINT DOMINGUE: THE FREEDMEN
As many as two–thirds of the enslaved people in Saint Domingue (now Haiti) in 1789 had been born in Africa, but by that time a significant number of Africans or children of Africans had become free. Here Moreau de Saint–Méry details the origins of this pivotal group.