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11 Int'l Migration Rev. 3 (1977)

handle is hein.journals/imgratv11 and id is 1 raw text is: East is West and West is East ... Population Redistribution in the USSR and its Impact on Society' Robert A. Lewis Columbia University Richard H. Rowland California State College-San Bernardino The purpose of this paper is to measure the dispersal of the Russians into non-Russian areas of the USSR since 1897, and endeavor to explain this population redistribution in terms of general formulations from the migration literature. Because the bulk of the Russian migration was to the urban areas of the non-Russian areas, major emphasis will be placed upon the changing shares they have comprised of the urban population in these areas outside of the RSFSR. We will also consider the prospects of future migration of non-Russians into Russian areas. We have taken a general approach to the study of demographic and ethnic processes in the USSR by testing concepts from the demographic literature in the Soviet context. This is not the usual approach to the study of these processes in the USSR. In the West, there has been a tradition in the social sciences and history that maintains that societal phenomena are not amenable to laws, largely because they are culturally conditioned and historically determined. Others have pointed to the totalitarian nature of Soviet society and its control over population processes. The ethnic literature on the USSR originating in the West has been characterized by considerable emotion, and ethnic processes have often been viewed largely in terms of conditions unique to the USSR, such as characteristically Russian traits or Communist ideology. Little effort has been made to relate ethnic processes in the USSR to the general experience elsewhere in the world, in particular to patterns in moderniz- ing, multinational states, and the interrelationships between ethnic and demographic processes have largely been neglected. Soviet Marxists claim 'This research was supported by Grant Number HD 05585-04 of the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the International Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction, Columbia University. This paper was originally presented at the Conference on Population Change and the Soviet Nationality Question, Columbia University, December 5-7, 1975. 3

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