| Titre | À l'origine de la diversité des mesures de la famine soviétique : La statistique des prix, des récoltes et de la consommation | |
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| Auteur | Serge Adamets | |
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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 | Articles |
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| Page | 559-585 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Serge Adamets, Price, crop and consumption statistics at the root of the diversity in the measurement of Soviet famines. There was a spectacular recrudescence of famines in the USSR between the Revolution and the Second World War. The loss in human lives caused by these catastrophes is estimated at several million deaths. To understand their origin, it is important fust to study how one can assess their magnitude in terms not only of reductions in crops and consumption but also in loss of human lives. It seems necessary to explain the diversity of the means used to measure Soviet famines. How did the statistical services observe the phenomena related to the famines? Does the choice of the observation methods applied greatly influence the results of the analyses? This study covers essentially the period 1918-1923, but is continued up to the 1930's. Some retrospective references to the tsarist era make it possible to understand the origin and the nature of the Soviet statistical studies. Three sources of observation are examined in this paper: price, crop and consumption statistics. The statistical data provided by the central and regional offices for statistics as well as by other organisms for statistics, are compared and discussed. The history of the measurements used for crops and for assessing the nutritional status of the population is related in chronological detail, so that the various causes for the differing numerical data obtained can be examined: distrust on the part of the population, the survey methods used, the corrective procedures applied to the initial statistics. The choice of the source of observation and of measurement seems particularly important, especially when discussing regional disparities. An analysis of the 1921-1922 famine may then greatly differ according to the reference basis chosen. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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