The purpose of this guide is to provide a detailed list and description of the contents of all major Russian and Soviet population censuses since 1897, with an index to enable the researcher to …

Introduction population redistribution in a number of European countries (Rowe et al., 2019). For example, in the late 1990s, large cities and the capital region in the UK were losing population, …

Looking at the Kremlin and the government’s position concerning the demographic situation of Russia, one can easily realize that Russia’s demographic policy is not only a collection of …

Indeed, the troubles caused by Russia's population trends—in health, education, family formation, and other spheres—represent a previously unprecedented phenomenon for an urbanized, …

Abstract The demographic transition in Russia was accelerated by several social cataclysms during the “Soviet type” modernization. Frequent changes in the timing of births and marriages …

While the Russian Federation is phys-ically still the largest state in the world, it is only the seventh most populous nation, trailing China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, and Pakistan.

The de- tailed patterns of regional, ethnic, and urban-rural differentials in fertility can be analyzed in detail from the age distributions of the Czarist census of 1897 and the Soviet census of 1926.

Research Guide to the Russian and Soviet Censuses © 1986 Cornell University Press This Book Chapter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 …

There are three major virtues to examining Russia through the prism of demographics and its allied disciplines. First, among all of the social sciences, it is arguably demography whose …

Population forecasts are even grimmer. Russia’s popu-lation today can be estimated at about 144 million.4 Population projections for the Russian Federation in 2015 range from an opti-mistic …