| Titre | Les relations entre le centre et les régions en URSS à travers les débats sur les nationalités dans le recensement de 1926 | |
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| Auteur | Juliette Cadiot | |
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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 | 601-616 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Juliette Cadiot, The relations between the center and the regions as seen from the debate on nationalities at the time of the 1926 census of the Soviet Union. The young Soviet Union undertakes in 1926 a general census of its population. On that occasion, the people censused are asked to specify their ethnic group (narodnosť) and their mother tongue (rodnoi iazyk). An analysis of the archives of the Central Census Commission shows that only a partial picture provided by the answers collected is available. Those holding a political view of nationality came into conflict with those who wished to view the Soviet population according to strictly ethnographic categories; the form used for the census was the product of a compromise between these two tendencies. The establishment for the census of a list of nationalities gave rise to constant and closely conducted discussion between the administrators at the central level and those at the peripheral regional levels. It is to be noted that the requests submitted by the distant regions in Asia were usually more easily accepted by the center than those emanating from European republics. Finally, the Central Office for Statistics succeeded in imposing the necessary standardization at the expense of a strict control of the entire statistical hierarchy as well as of a certain flexibility. The analysis also shows that the process of négociation was highly important, very frequent and well accepted, particularly by the administrators and the politicians, who thought to apease as much as possible the crises in the relations between the center and the periphery, and to make the best uses possible of the data resulting from the census. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_1252-6576_1997_num_38_4_2507 |
