Dyakina Elena V.,
Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
“Zones of special attention”: Dynamics of the Rural Population of the West Siberian Region in 1932–1933 According to Tax Records
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2019-4-6
The article deals with the dynamics of the rural population of Western Siberia during one of the most controversial periods of Soviet history, namely the era of collectivization and industrialization of the country. The first “five-year plans” created a lot of difficulties for historians-demographers in the availability and reliability of statistical data on population, as they fall into the “inter-census” period of 1926–1937, which might have remained a “blind spot” of Soviet statistics, if not for alternative sources of statistical material collection, such as local urban censuses, livestock censuses, tax accounting data, etc. The reliability of the information of tax records of the rural population is highly appreciated by researchers, and, in their opinion, reflects the most clear picture of the actual situation in the village of the 1930s. Additional difficulties are created by administrative and territorial changes in the borders of the West Siberian region. The article shows the increase and decrease in the number of rural Siberians in the framework of zoning, adopted during tax accounting. Comparison of districts with highest and lowest shares of collectivization in the period of 1932–1933, showed the family size of rural households of the period, including the farm. The influence of hunger on migration processes between the city and the village was determined, but for the period from 1932 to 1933 according to the tax records, the impact of hunger on the decline in population due to natural decline is not so obvious.
Publishing: 30/08/2019
How to cite: Dyakina E.V. “Zones of special attention”: Dynamics of the Rural Population of the West Siberian Region in 1932–1933 According to Tax Records // Historical Courier, 2019, # 4 (6). Article 6. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2019/ISTKURIER-2019-4-06.pdf
Links: Issue 4 2019
Keywords: population; rural population of the West Siberian region; famine; collectivization; collective farm