Ellen Jones and Fred W. Grupp, in Population and Development Review (June 1983), The Population Council, 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017.
To some specialists, the sudden jump in the recorded number of infant deaths in the Soviet Union during the early 1970s was a sign of drastic deterioration in the quality of Soviet life [see "A Different Crisis," Murray Feshbach, WQ, Winter 19811.
Between 1971 and 1974 (the last year Moscow published official data on the subject), the...