The Family in the French, Georgian, Lithuanian, and Russian States

This special issue of Revue d'etudes comparatives est-ouest is dedicated to the subject of the recent transformations to the family that have been seen in France, Georgia, Lithuania, and Russia. The transformation is expressed in three demographic dimensions, including the anthropological, which involves intra-family relationships, the political, which involves the specific histories of each country, and the social and economic, which constrains or liberates demographic factors. These four countries were chosen for this study for a variety of reasons. Four teams that had been assembled in each nation with similar research objectives joined together in a single project to exchange and analyze their respective data. One objective of this joint venture was to compare the data from a group of states with a shared political and economic past with one that had had a separate evolution, making it possible to estimate the role played by sociocultural and political factors in the demographic transformations that lie at the heart of the study. Adapted from the source document.