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Suicide and homicide after the fall of communist regimes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

D Lester
D Lester*
Affiliation:
Center for the Study of Suicide, 5 Stonegate Court (RR 41), Blackwood, NJ, 08012, USA
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Summary

Both suicide and homicide rates rose in nations formed after the formal break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. Homicide rates, but not suicide rates rose in Eastern European nations after the fall of their communist regimes in 1989.

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suicidehomicidenew nations
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Short communication
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , 1998 , pp. 98 - 100
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1998

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