Moving to Moscow
Patterns of Peasant In-Migration during the First Five-Year Plan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4905525 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David L Hoffmann (0000-0003-4130-1697, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 847-857 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2500466 |
| OpenAlex | W2321783848 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 17 |
When an eighteen-year-old peasant named Evgenii Mikhailovich Kostin stepped off a train in Moscow in October 1931 he felt overwhelmed by milling throngs of unfamiliar people and frightened by the commotion of the city. Yet his adjustment to urban life proved much less traumatic than his initial impression had portended; relatives housed him, an acquaintance from his village found him a job, and friends showed him around Moscow. Kostin was one of at least 23 million Soviet peasants who moved permanently to cities between 1926 and 1939-marking what demographers estimate to be the most rapid urbanization in world history. In the First Five-Year Plan alone Moscow's population increased nearly 60 percent (an added 1,349,500 people) to reach 3,663,300 by the end of 1932. Scholars have portrayed peasant in-migration to Soviet cities during the 1930s either as a phenomenon tightly regulated by the state or, alternatively, as chaos and upheaval; but, as this article will demonstrate, the process by which peasants found their way to Moscow during the First Five-Year Plan was neither controlled nor chaotic
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| Citations per year | 0.12 |
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| Citation span | 1992 - 2023 (32) |
| Highly cited | No |