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Titre Les sources démographiques entre contrôle policier et utopies technocratiques [Le cas russe, 1870-1926]
Auteur Alessandro Stanziani
Mir@bel Revue Cahiers du monde russe
Numéro volume 38, no 4, octobre-décembre 1997 Statistique démographique et sociale (Russie-URSS) Politiques, administrateurs et société
Rubrique / Thématique
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Page 457-487
Résumé anglais Alessandro Stanziani, The demographic source materials: Between police controls and technocratic utopianism. The case of Russia, 1870-1926. This paper starts out by recalling the debates, which began in 1865, by the Bolshevik government about the organization of regular censuses in Russia. It considers, in particular, questions concerning the administration of the census files and the criteria for defining the social groups. This paper also describes how the 1867 census was conducted and its impact on the statistical surveys, the economic policies and Russian historiography. The second section of this paper analyzes the 1916 census and the difficulties encountered by the tsarist regime during the First World War in conducting a population count, an essential factor, at that time, for the recruitement of soldiers and the organization of the labor force. The last section examines the setting up of the Soviet demographic and statistical machinery, discusses the controversies which opposed the government administrators to the professional statisticians, and studies the organization of the principal post-revolutionary surveys up to 1926.
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