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Regulation of death costs by post-Soviet governments
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post-Soviet states disproportionately more active in the regulation of a private life sphere like funerals.
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The combination of high poverty and low political stability makes post-Soviet states more responsive to the increasing financial burden of death costs on households, prompting them to a more active interference into funeral regulation.
Turkhan Sadigov
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This page is a summary of: Burying Instability: Post-Soviet Governments' Regulation of Funerals, Problems of Post-Communism, February 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2020.1716196.
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