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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
[ Prostitution in Russia from the 17th century to 1917]
Moscow: Novyi khronograf, 2008 559 p Serie: Rossiiskoe obshchestvo. Sovremennye issledovaniia Hardcover. 14.5 x 21.5 cm ISBN: 9785948810492 Language: Russian
One of the questionable achievements of the modern Russian capitalism is the rise of prostitution and trafficking in women. This monograph studies the history of this issue in imperial Russia in the end of the XIX-early XX centuries. Contents: Who are prostitutes?; Government policy on prostitution; Moral and social image of prostitutes; Prostitution and venereal disease; Reglamentists and Abolitionists: Fight of the social activists against prostitution; Sources and causes of prostitution. Appendices.
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