Growth and Diversity of the Population of the Soviet Union
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9769696 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara A Anderson (0000-0003-2300-0954, corresponding author), Brian D Silver (Michigan State University) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 510 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 155-177 |
| Publication date | 1990-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716290510001012 |
| OpenAlex | W2105157178 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 7 |
The most remarkable feature of the Soviet Union's demography is its ethnic diversity. More than 90 ethnic groups are indigenous to the territory of the Soviet Union. Ethnic Russians composed only 50.8 percent of the population according to preliminary 1989 census results. The article examines official Soviet statistics for the period 1959 to 1989 to illustrate some of the risks in describing Soviet demographic behavior. Is fertility in the Soviet Union high or low? Answer: both. Is the Soviet population growing rapidly or slowly? Answer: both. The changing ethnic composition of the population of the USSR as a whole reflects large differences in growth rates of ethnic groups; the changing composition of the USSR by region also reflects differences in migration by ethnic group. Differences in growth rates are reshaping the ethnic composition of the Soviet labor force. For the USSR as a whole between 1979 and 1989, three-fourths of the net increment to the working ages was contributed by the one-sixth of the population in 1979 that was traditionally Muslim in religion
Biology · Census · Demographic economics · Development economics · Diversity (politics · Economics · Ethnic composition · Ethnic group · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Population · Sociology · Soviet union · Demography · Ecology · Law · Russia and Soviet political economy
Population Data and Reorganisation of Statistical System
From Russianisation to Legalisation
Death by demography
The Consequences of the Tajikistani Civil War for Abortion and Miscarriage
Why the Soviet military supported Gorbachev but why the Russian military might only support Yeltsin for a price
Changing Social Priorities and the Increased Salience of the Economy in Estonia
Ethnicity and citizen identity in planning and development for minority groups
Permanent’ and ‘present’ populations in Soviet statistics
Estimating russification of ethnic identity among non-Russians in the USSR
The Changing Shape of Soviet Mortality, 1958-1985
Patterns of Cohort Mortality in the Soviet Population
The Effects of the Registration System on the Seasonality of Births
Levels of Sociocultural Development Among Soviet Nationalities
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2021 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |