POPULATION OF RUSSIA.
FIRST CENSUS FOR 30 YEARS EXTREME DEGRADATION. (Received 11 a.m.) Electric Telegraph—Press Association LONDON, January 5. The Riga correspondent says that the Soviet has completed the first entire census since 1897. The compilers liad most curious adventures, even in the big towns, where the people suspected the authorities of attempting a new political experiment. Many country districts were agitated by the revival of the legend current since Peter the Great organised the first census, that the anti-Christ was numbering the people before the end of the world. The census -revealed, even in Moscow and Leningrad, extreme degradation of a great proportion of the population, especially in family relations; also children’s squalor and vice.
The first figures show that the population and birth rate catastrophically declined after the revolution but increased again after 1922 with a great drift towards the towns. The Moscow population is 2,018,000 compared with 1.027,000 in 1920; Leningrad 1,611,000 double what it was in 1920 m
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10436, 6 January 1927, Page 6
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