Navigating Late USSR Family Planning. Scattered Narratives from Demography and Medicine.
Nataliya Shok and Nadezhda Beliakova
The history of Soviet family planning policy is а complex subject involving several important agents, including demographers, physicians, women, and the state. The perspective of each has its own scope that pertains to а particular focus in historical research-women’s history, medical history, economic and sociopolitical histories. Navigating around these complexities requires interdisciplinary methodology.