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Nationality Composition of the Soviet Population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Stephen Rapawy
Stephen Rapawy*
Affiliation:
Soviet Social Studies, Center for International Research, United States Census Bureau
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The Soviet population comprises numerous nationalities, but there are differences of opinion as to the exact number. One author claims that there are 128 to 132 nationalities or ethnic groups living in the Soviet Union. The last official figure was issued by the Central Statistical Administration in instructions for the 1970 census. At this time the Administration, in consultation with numerous scholarly institutions, determined that 122 nationalities or ethnic groups resided in the Soviet Union. Comparable information for the 1979 census is not available in the West.

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Research Notes
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , spring 1985 , pp. 70 - 83
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Copyright © 1982 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc. 

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