Russia's Abandoned Children: An Intimate Understanding

Russia's Abandoned Children: An Intimate Understanding

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-177

  Fujimura, Clementine K ^a   Stoecker, Sally W ^b   Sudakova, Tatyana ^c  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^b BAIKAL STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c American University's Transnational Crime and Corruption Center   (United States)

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