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26
May
2015
18:00
Lecture ‘ Demographic Aspects of Soviet History in the First Half of the Twentieth Century ’ by Stephen G. Wheatcroft
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On May 26 Stephen G. Wheatcroft,Professor at the School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne,will give a public lecture‘Demographic Aspects of Soviet History in the First Half of the Twentieth Century’as part of the scholarly seminar of the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences.
Abstract:
In the first half of the twentieth century the USSR experienced three major demographic crises, and unparalleled demographic growth as the population was transformed. The government attempted to deny the existence of the central of these crises, and their footprints as revealed in the age structure of the population in later censuses, was for a longtime well hidden. My paper not only analyses the nature of these crises, but tells the story of the struggle over the indicators of population growth and size. Demographers, statisticians and their leaders like Popov and Osinskii emerge as the heroes of this story, and the villain is not so much Stalin but those officials like Voznesenskii and Kraval’ who provided them with politically convenient plan constructivist distortions.
Stephen G. Wheatcroft is Professor at the School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia, and the author of numerous publications in Soviet economic and demographic history as well as repressions in the USSR. His publications include The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-33 (Macmillan, 2004, 2009 and Russian edition in Rosspen 2011, co-authored with R.W. Davies), and Davies, R.W., Harrison, M. and Wheatcroft, S. G. (eds) The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945 (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Working language: English
Start time: 6pm Address: 12 Petrovka, Room 208
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