Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine

• Main Authors: Meslé, France (Author), Vallin, Jacques (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Demographic Research Monographs, A series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Political science.; Public health.; Emigration and immigration.; Social Sciences.; Migration.; Public Health.; History, general.; Political Science.

The Ukraine faced two very different kinds of health crises during the twentieth century. First, in the 1930s and 1940s, famine, war and political upheaval caused massive population losses. Previous evaluations of overall losses have given an idea of the scale of these catastrophes but do not distin...