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The History and Afterlife of Soviet Demography: The Socialist Roots of Post-Soviet Neoliberalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2019

Inna Leykin
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Abstract

The discourse on the demographic crisis in contemporary Russia resonates with a neoliberal political project that attempts to govern populations through the market logic of optimization, responsibilization, and efficacy. Yet, as this article argues, the basic categories of the discourse, although evocative of a new neoliberal rationality, were in fact born of epistemological changes that took place in the Soviet science of population in the last decades of the USSR. Specifically, the analytical shift from Marxist-Leninist demography, which stressed a strong economic determinism, to the concept of demographic behavior, which became central to the discipline's analytical toolkit in the late Soviet period, produced political ideas in which individual behavior became both the core of the population problem and its solution. The article follows these institutional and conceptual transformations and shows how knowledge produced by Soviet demographers in that period continues to provide the foundation for neoliberal state efforts to solve the population problem. When seen from a historical perspective, the neoliberal character of the new population policies loses its apparent ideological and political coherence.

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Slavic Review , Volume 78 , Issue 1 , Spring 2019 , pp. 149 - 172
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Footnotes

This essay has benefited from the close reading and comments of Michele Rivkin-Fish, Michal Kravel-Tovi, Erica Weiss, Yifat Gutman, and Tom Pessah. I am also grateful to audiences at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, both in Tel Aviv University, and at the 49th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies for their helpful critical comments on earlier drafts. Research for this article was supported by the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. I would also like to thank The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University for funding portions of this research and writing. I am particularly grateful to Harriet Murav, whose intellectual generosity and editorial guidance was invaluable in helping me strengthen the essay; and to the anonymous reviewers who offered perceptive and productive guidance for revision.

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19. Anatolii Antonov, interview, Moscow, June 23, 2008.

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21. Leonid Rybakovsky, “Rezul΄tativnost΄ kak osnovnoi pokazatel΄ otsenki sostoianiia i tendentsii rozhdaemosti (Effectiveness as the Main Indicator of Fertility Trends),” Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia 4 (2016): 24.

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29. Blum, Rodit’sia, zhit’ i umeret’ v SSSR, 52–55; David Lloyd Hoffmann, Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914–1939 (Ithaca, 2011), 133.

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31. For a detailed analysis of the tragic history of the 1937 census, see: Blum, “Social History as the History of Measuring Populations”; Alain Blum and Martine Mespoulet, Biurokraticheskaia anarkhiia. Statistika i vlast pri Staline (Bureaucratic Anarchy: Statistics and Power under Stalin) (Moscow, 2006); Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Ithaca, 2005); Mark Tolts, “Nedostupnoe izmerenie,” (Inaccessible Dimension) in Anatolii Vishnevskii, ed., V Chelovecheskom izmerenii (In the Human Dimension) (Moscow, 1989): 325–42; Mark Tolts, “Tainy sovetskoi demografii,” (The Secrets of Soviet Demography) Demoskop Weekly 171–172 (27 September–10 October, 2004), at www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2004/0171/analit06.php (last accessed March 4, 2019); Mark Tolts, “Population Trends in the Russian Federation: Reflections on the Legacy of Soviet Censorship and Distortions of Demographic Statistics,” Eurasian Geography and Economics 49, no. 1 (2008): 87–98; Andrei Volkov, “Perepis΄ naseleniia 1937 goda: Vymysly i pravda (1937 Census: Myths and Truth),” in Izbrannye demograficheskie trudy (Selection of Work in Demography) (Moscow, 2014), 121–67.

32. After the death of Stalin, certain indicators became publically available, but since 1974, most of the data (age distribution, life expectancy, birth parity and more) were classified again as “for internal use only” (dlia sluzhebnogo pol’zovaniia). Vishnevskii, “Trudnoe vozrozhdenie demografii”; Marksim Denisenko and Valery Elizarov, eds., Razvitie naseleniia i demograficheskaia politika. Pamiati A.Ia. Kvashi (Population Development and Demographic Policies. In Memory of A.Ya. Kvasha) (Moscow, 2014), 40; Tolts, “Tainy sovetskoi demografii”; Mark Tolts, “The Failure of Demographic Statistics: A Soviet Response to Population Troubles” (paper, IUSSP XXIVth General Population Conference, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil, 2001); Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, “Toward a Joint Future beyond the Iron Curtain: East–West Politics of Global Modelling,” in Jenny Andersson and Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, eds., The Struggle for the Long Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future, ed. (London, 2015), 15–17. It is important to note that during the Cold War, certain topics deemed relevant to national security could not be published publically on the both sides of the Iron Curtain. Such was, for example, the case of mathematical economics. Johanna Bockman and Michael A. Bernstein, “Scientific Community in a Divided World: Economists, Planning, and Research Priority during the Cold War,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 50, no. 3 (2008): 591.

33. Blum, Roditsia, Zhit i Umeret v SSSR. 1917-1991; see also Steven Rosefielde, “Demographic Analysis and Population Catastrophes in the USSR: A Rejoinder to Barbara Anderson and Brian Silver,” Slavic Review 45, no. 2 (1986): 302–302.

34. Blum and Mespoulet, Biurokraticheskaia anarkhia; Hoffmann, Cultivating the Masses; Holquist, “‘In Accord with State Interests and the People’s Wishes.’”

35. Pollock, Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars.

36. Valentina Steshenko, “Mikhail Vasil’evich Ptukha kak demograf, 1884–1961 (Mikhail Vasil’evich Ptukha as Demographer 1884–1961),” Demoskop Weekly, 35–36 (24 September–7 October, 2001), at http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/035/nauka03.php (last accessed December 20, 2018).

37. Blum, Rodit’sia, zhit’ i umeret’ v SSSR, 39.

38. Aron Ia. Boiarskii, “Demografiia kak nauka (Demography as Science),” in Naselenie i metody ego izucheniia: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov (Population and the Methods of Population Research) (Moscow, 1975), 13–19.

39. Mie Nakachi, “Liberation without Contraception: The Rise of the Abortion Empire and Pronatalism in Socialist and Postsocialist Russia,” in Rickie Solinger and Mie Nakachi, eds., Reproductive States: Global Perspectives on the Invention and Implementation of Population Policy (Oxford, 2016), 290–328.

40. Blum, “Social History as the History of Measuring Populations: A Post-1987 Renewal,” 286; Blum, Rodit’sia, zhit’ i umeret’ v SSSR. Similar processes were occurring in Soviet sociology. In 1958, after several decades of a virtual non-existence, the Soviet Sociological Association was established because of a growing demand to represent the Soviet Union at international sociological conferences. Dmitry Kurakin, “The Sociology of Culture in the Soviet Union and Russia: The Missed Turn,” Cultural Sociology 11, no. 4 (December 2017): 394–415.

41. Helen Desfosses, Soviet Population Policy: Conflicts and Constraints.

42. It has been suggested that Urlanis’s intrepid behavior can be traced to his “freedom” from any official position in the Soviet academic and political establishment. A Jew, Urlanis was fired from his position in the Moscow State University in 1949 as part of Stalin’s campaign against cosmopolitanism. He never held a position in the Central Statistical Bureau or any other politically-sensitive department or laboratory. Vishnevskii, “Trudnoe vozrozhdenie demografii”; Vladimir Borisov and Anatolii Vishnevskii, “Boris Tsezarevich Urlanis, demograf,” Demoskop Weekly 31–32 (27 August–9 September, 2011), at http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/031/nauka01.php (last accessed December 20, 2018).

43. DiMaio, “Evolution of Soviet Population Thought.”; Murray Feshbach, “The Soviet Population Policy Debate: Actors and Issues” (Santa Monica, 1986), 15–16; Andrei G. Volkov, “Sushchestvuet li nauka ‘Demografiia’?” (Does Demography as Science Exist?), Demoskop Weekly, 41–42 (5–18 November, 2001), at http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/041/nauka01.php (last accessed December 20, 2018).

44. World Health Organization, Official Records of the World Health Organization, No. 151, “Nineteenth World Health Assembly, Geneva, May 3-20, 1966: Part I, Resolutions and Decisions Annexes,” (Geneva, August 1966), at http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/85788/1/Official_record151_eng.pdf (last accessed December 20, 2018).

45. Matthew James Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (Cambridge, Mass, 2008), 313.

46. DiMaio, “Evolution of Soviet Population Thought.”

47. Volkov, “Sushchestvuet li nauka ‘Demografiia’?”; Andrei G. Volkov, “My sdelali, chto smogli . . . ” (We Did What We Could . . .), Demoskop Weekly, 125–26 (8–21 September, 2003), at http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2003/0125/nauka01.php (last accessed December 20, 2018).

48. Andrew Delano Abbott, The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor (Chicago, 1988).

49. Aron Ia. Boiarskii, “K voprosu o vzaimosviazi pokazatelei vosproizvodstva naseleniia” (On the Question of the Interactions between Different Indicators of Population Reproduction), in Vasilii S. Nemchinov, ed., Problemy demograficheskoii statistiki (The Problems of Demographic Statistics) (Moscow, 1959), 7–18; Boiarskii, “Demografia kak nauka.”

50. Valentina Belova and Leonid Darskii, Statistika mnenii v izuchenii rozhdaemosti (Polling Statistics in the Study of Fertility) (Moscow, 1972); Valentina Belova, Chislo detei v sem΄e (Children Parity in a Family) (Moscow, 1975); Valentina A. Belova, Galina A. Bondarskaia, and Leonid E. Darskii, “Dinamika i differentsiatsiia rozhdaemosti v SSSR” (The Dynamics and Differentiation of Birthrates in the USSR), Vestnik Statistiki 12 (1983): 14–24; Andrei G. Volkov, “Sem΄ia kak faktor izmeneniia demograficheskoi situatsii” (Family as a Factor in the Demographic Transformation), Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia 1 (1981): 34–42; Andrei Volkov, ed., Faktory rozhdaemosti (Indicators of Fertility Trends) (Moscow, 1971); Galina A. Bondarskaia, Rozhdaemost΄ v SSSR (Etnodemograficheskii Aspekt) (Natality in the USSR [Ethno-Demographic Aspects]) (Moscow, 1977); Rosa I. Sifman, Dinamika rozhdaemosti v SSSR (the Dynamics of Birthrates in the USSR) (Moscow, 1974).

51. The Institute of Applied Social Research at the Soviet Academy of Sciences—institut konkretnykh sotsial΄nykh issledovanii—IKSI was renamed the Institute of Sociological Research—ISI in 1972 and Institute of Sociology in 1988. Other institutes of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, most notably, the Institute of Economics and its regional branches, also hosted demographers and scholars interested in demography from related disciplines, such as geography. Gennadii Osipov, “Vozrozhdenie sotsiologii v Rossii: Kak eto bylo na samom dele (The Resurgence of Sociology in Russia: How It Really Happened),” Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia 6 (2008): 5–22; Gennadii Batygin, ed., Rossiiskaia sotsiologiia shestidesiatykh godov v vospominaniiakh i dokumentakh (Russian Sociology in the 1960s: Memories and Documents) (St. Petersburg, 1999).

52. It was first established as the Laboratory for Population Research in 1965 (problemnaia laborotoriia po voprosam izucheniia narodonaseleniia na ekonomicheskom fakul΄tete MGU). In 1968, the Center for the Study of Population Problems was established in the same department (Tsentr po izucheniiu problem narodonaseleniia). Raisa S. Rotova and Maksim B. Denisenko, eds., D. I. Valentei v vospominaniiakh kolleg i uchenikov (D.I. Valentei as Remembered by His Colleagues and Students) (Moscow, 2006).

53. Feshbach, “The Soviet Population Policy Debate: Actors and Issues.”

54. Ibid., 12–40.

55. Sergey F. Ivanov, “Chetvert΄ veka spustia (Quarter of the Century Later),” in D. I. Valentei v vospominaniiakh kolleg i uchenikov, 14–18. It is possible that Murray Feshbach had had a direct impact on late Soviet demography, although I could not find any tangible evidence to prove this point.

56. Batygin, Rossiiskaia sotsiologiia shestidesiatykh godov v vospominaniiakh i dokumentakh, 118, 608.

57. Victor Perevedentzev, “O Probleme Rozhdaemosti i Demograficheskom Nevedenii (On the Problem of Fertility and Demographic Illiteracy),” Literaturnaia Gazeta, no. 95, August 13, 1966; Victor Perevedentzev, “Beregite drug druga! (Protect Each Other!),” Literaturnaia Gazeta, November 13, 1968; Boris Urlanis, “Beregite muzhchin! (Protect the Guys!),” Literaturnaia Gazeta, July 24, 1968.

58. Vishnevskii, “Trudnoe vozrozhdenie demografii,” 97.

59. Yale Richmond, Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain (University Park, 2004), 136–52.

60. Pugacheva, “Institut konkretnykh sotsial΄nykh issledovanii Akademii nauk SSSR (1968–1972)”; Kurakin, “The Sociology of Culture in the Soviet Union and Russia,” 402.

61. Vishnevskii, “Trudnoe vozrozhdenie demografii,” 96; Edvard Arab-Ogly, “‘Togda kazalos΄, chto koe-chtou udavalos΄ . . .” (We Were under Impression That Some Things Worked Well . . .) in Rossiiskaia sotsiologiia shestidesiatykh godov v vospominaniiakh i dokumentakh, 358–70.

62. Anatolii G. Vishnevskii and Igor S. Kon, eds., Brachnost΄, rozhdaemost΄, sem΄ia za tri veka (Novoe v zarubezhnoi demografii) (Nuptility, Fertility and Family over the Last Three Centuries) (Moscow, 1979); Andrei G. Volkov and Leonid E. Darskii, eds., Brak i sem΄ia. Demograficheskii aspekt (Novoe v zarubezhnoi demografii) (Marriage and Family. A Demographic Perspective [New in Foreign Demography]) (Moscow, 1975), and Razvod. Demograficheskii Aspekt (Novoe v zarubezhnoi demografii) (Divorce: A Demographic Perspective. [New in Foreign Demography]) (Moscow, 1979).

63. Aron Ia. Boiarskii, “K probleme demograficheskogo optimuma (On the Theory of Population Optimum),” in Andrei G. Volkov, ed., Izuchenie vosproizvodstva naseleniia (Studies in Population Reproduction) (Moscow, 1968), 48.

64. Aron Ia. Boiarskii, “K probleme naseleniia (On the Question of Population),” in Naselenie i metody ego izucheniia, 76.

65. Valery Elizarov, “Demograf s bol΄shoi bukvy (A Demographer with a Capital D),” in Razvitie naseleniia i demograficheskaia politika. Pamiati A.Ya. Kvashi, 38–39; Alexander Ia. Kvasha, “Problemy demograficheskogo optimuma (The Problems of Optimum Population),” in Dmitrii I. Valentei, ed., Narodonaselenie (Population) (Moscow, 1973), 13–26.

66. In the 1970s, a growing number of Marxist demographers in the west placed proletarianization at the center of their analysis, which they perceived as a protracted and uneven demographic revolution that began in the eighteenth century—two hundred years prior to the formation of the proletariat—with the rise of a mass of rural landless laborers. See, for example, Wally Seccombe, “Marxism and Demography,” New Left Review, no. 137 (January 1983): 25–28. This development was not however at the forefront of Soviet demographic research.

67. Valerii Elizarov, “Model’ upravleniia reproduktivnym povedeniem sem΄i (The Model for the Regulation of Family’s Reproductive Behavior),” in D. I. Valentei, ed., Upravlenie demograficheskimi protsessami (The Regulation of Demographic Processes) (Moscow, 1980), 89–103; Mikhail Matskovskii, “Demograficheskoe povedenie (Demographic Behavior),” in D. I. Valentei, ed., Demograficheskii entsiklopedicheskii slovar΄ (Moscow, 1985); Andrei G. Volkov, Sem΄ia—ob΄΄ekt demografii (Moscow, 1986).

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