Accession Number:

ADA048177

Title:

Emergent Nationality Problems in the USSR.

Descriptive Note:

Interim rept.,

Corporate Author:

RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Azrael,Jeremy

Report Date:

1977-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

44.0

Abstract:

An analysis of emergent ethnodemographic and ethnopolitical trends in the USSR and a discussion of their economic, military, and political implications for the Soviet regime and for the West. There is a large disparity between the population growth rates of the countrys European Slavic and Baltic nationalities, which are low and have steadily fallen, and the growth rates of its non-European Caucasian and Central Asian nationalities, which are extremely high. As a consequence, by the end of the century, between 20 and 25 percent of its teenagers and young adults will be non-Europeans, of whom the vast majority will be Muslim Central Asians. Author

Descriptors:

• *USSR
• *DEMOGRAPHY
• *ETHNIC GROUPS
• FOREIGN POLICY
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• EMPLOYMENT
• ECONOMICS
• MANPOWER UTILIZATION
• POPULATION
• PROBLEM SOLVING
• RECRUITS
• INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• EASTERN EUROPE
• COMMUNIST COUNTRIES

Subject Categories:

• Economics and Cost Analysis
• Government and Political Science
• Sociology and Law

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE