Migration of the USSR population in the pre-war years (1939-1940)

Vladimir A. Isupov () and Natalia V. Chernysheva ()
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Vladimir A. Isupov: A. Pushkin Leningrad State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Natalia V. Chernysheva: Institute of Demographic Research, Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Population and Economics, 2022, vol. 6, issue 2, 70-78

Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of migration of the USSR population in the pre-war years (1939-1940). Along with the analysis of the number of migrants and direction of migration flows, the authors also demonstrate the increasing control functions of the state in the field of population movement in the USSR. Based on the analysis of a wide range of historical sources, many of which are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time ever, the authors have developed an original classification of the pre-war migration. The article is devoted to the USSR population in the pre-war years, determines its components with population migration being one of them. The article concludes that the socio-economic causes of migration are interrelated with the political (mainly foreign policy) ones. The pre-war migration is also characterized by a latent nature, a combination of planned and spontaneous movements with the desire of the state to take the latter under control. The practice of forced displacement of the population, including from the annexed territories continued during the period under study. An important part of the USSR migration were military mobilizations, forced deportations of large groups of population, recruitment of labour, and agricultural resettlement. At the same time, spontaneous relocations outside the state control played a significant role in forming migration flows.

Keywords: military; mobilization; population; of; the; USSR; organized; recruitment; of; labour; planned; population; movement; forced; migration; spontaneous; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.3897/popecon.6.e81466

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