What are the causes of death in Russia and in France?

Abstract

This article is a summary of a monograph, published in Paris that was the result of comparative research of death' s causes in Russia and in France. For many years the information about the causes of death in the USSR was considered to be secret and unget-at-able to researchers. Only by the end of 80-s these data became easy of access. In the monograph 10 clusters and 175 detailed rubric of the causes of death are explicated beginning from 1965.