Volume 36 - Article 41 | Pages 1209–1254
Childbearing among first- and second-generation Russians in Estonia against the background of the sending and host countries
By Allan Puur, Leen Rahnu, Liili Abuladze, Luule Sakkeus, Sergei Zakharov
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