Russia’s Pursuit of Repopulation: Abortion, Large Families, and Propaganda
CGIS South Building, S354 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThrough 1944 pronatalist Family Law and Putin’s pronatalist policy, this talk identifies forces that affect the politics of reproduction.Six months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, in August 2022, the Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the Soviet title of “Mother Heroine” for mothers with ten or more children. Originally the Soviet government had introduced […]