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Climate, Crops, and Natural Increase in Rural Russia, 1861–1913

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Mary Kilbourne Matossian
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A great many available statistics describe the population history of Russia, but explanations for these statistics are limited or nonexistent. The useful studies of fertility and migration that have appeared are primarily accurate reports of what happened. Studies of Russian mortality are wholly lacking, an understandable situation, since as late as 1913 only thirteen out of fifty provinces of European Russia had medical statistical bureaus. Despite all past efforts the history of Russia's health remains obscure.

While the health of the Russian people today is comparable to that of other Europeans, before the Revolution of 1917 it was extremely poor. In 1897, the year of the first national Russian census, the infant mortality rate for European Russia was 260 for each 1,000 births, compared to 222 for Germany, 164 for France, 156 for Italy, 156 for England and Wales, and 109 for Ireland.

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Slavic Review , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , Fall 1986 , pp. 457 - 469
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1986

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