Soviet_census

Soviet census

The following is a summary of censuses carried out in the Soviet Union:

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Notes

  1. The first full-scale census in the Soviet Union.
  2. Initially set to take place in 1933, but was delayed multiple times due to Joseph Stalin's policies of collectivization, forced famine and political repression which lowered the population drastically. The only one-day census in the Russian history. Proclaimed defective by the Soviet government in September 1937.
  3. Took place instead of the "defective" 1937 census.
  4. The population increased markedly as a result of the Soviet Union's territorial expansion by World War II.
  5. The last census of the Soviet Union.

References

  1. "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1937 года: Общие итоги". docs.historyrussia.org.

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