MIGRATION IN RUSSIA/USSR, 1860-1930s AS A PART OF SOCIAL-NATURAL POPULATION CONTROL SYSTEM: METHODS AND BASIC RESEARCH RESULTS

Abstract

The necessary sources in this kind of a research are all-Russian and regional E-database of prosopography information embracing over 20 million of people of both sexes born in 1830s - 1944 in all Russian (Soviet) regions and belonging by its origin to each social-estate group. Quantitative and qualitative completeness of sources made it possible to form long (100 years long or over) unbreakable lines of sociography to support a system analysis of crucial limbs of the social synergism including migration dynamics at all population levels from a separate settlement to the all-Russian scale. A causal paradigm of “overpopulation - mass and individual stress - mass and individual aggression” complicated by modernization and social catastrophes factors is taken as a basic factor of migration as a form of a social aggression in the first half of the XX century is considered. Sociographic mass sources’ data processing is revealed as a synergism of the long natural-demographic cycles controlled ups and downs of social activities (aggression) with migration as its part. In general, mass out-migration acted as a factor in a social-natural population control system alongside with the other visible and hidden control factors of this synergism (wartime mortality, social decay, famine, epidemics, exogenous and endogenic infertility, modernity factors).