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family structures

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Emmanuel Todd

French demographer and historian who predicted the fall of the Soviet Union in 1976 (La Chute finale) based on infant mortality data — and who developed a theory that family structures (nuclear family, stem family, communal family) determine political ideologies — explaining why communism took hold in Russia and China but not in England.

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