Growth and Diversity of the Population of the Soviet Union
dc.contributor.author | Anderson, Barbara | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Silver, Brian | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-04-13T19:11:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-04-13T19:11:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1990 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Anderson, Barbara; Silver, Brian (1990). "Growth and Diversity of the Population of the Soviet Union." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 510(1): 155-177. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67141> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0002-7162 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67141 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.publisher | Sage Publications | en_US |
dc.title | Growth and Diversity of the Population of the Soviet Union | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Political Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Government, Politics and Law | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Political Science at Michigan State University | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67141/2/10.1177_000271629051000112.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/000271629051000112 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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