| Titre | À l'origine des purges de 1937 [L'exemple de l'administration de la statistique démographique*] | |
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| Auteur | Alain Blum | |
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Revue | Cahiers du monde russe |
| Numéro | volume 39, no 1-2, janvier-juin 1998 Les années 30 - Nouvelles directions de recherche | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 169-195 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Alain Blum, The roots of the 1937 purges. The case of demographic statistics. During the 1930's, the Soviet administration for demographic statistics was one of the best places from which to observe the social and human catastrophies that hit the USSR from the collectivization until the famine of 1933. The data provided by this office to the political leaders indicate the importance and extent of the catastrophe. The present article studies the conflicts which arose at that time between this office and various political bodies, e.g. the control commissions, the NKVD, and the political leadership, including Stalin himself; it analyzes the professional requisites as applied and their interaction with a political need to deny reality. Finally, the article shows how the purges of 1937-1939, which have a deep effect on this administration, may be interpreted as the absurd result of an impossibility to resolve the contradictions inherent to the political leadership in power, i.e. its desire, on the one hand, to exercise a planned management of society and therefore to make use of statistics, but its need, on the other hand, to deny the highly unstable condition of society and the dramatic events of the 1930's which these statistics reveal. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_1252-6576_1998_num_39_1_2518 |
