Dynamics of rural population growth of Gorki region in the second half of 1950s

Abstract

The article analyses the causes of the rural population growth in 1955–1959. The author shows a family size and structure in urban and rural areas. The author emphasizes the causes of the formation of the described rural family structure. There is considered the legislative activity of the state in the population sphere. There is given the analysis of the dynamics of the rural population growth of the Gorki region as a whole and its working-age part in particular.