Population and social transformations in the USSR: demographic crises during the "socialist" transformations of the 1930-ies (on materials of the Urals region)
The article analyses the factors and scale of the crisis of the USSR demographic sphere during the period of intense socio-economic transformation of the 1930-s (on the example of the Urals). Social calamities such as famine and epidemics in the early 1930-s and 1936-1937 led to the emergence of demographic crises in the region. In 1933 due to a sharp mortality growth the demographic crisis in the Urals turned into a demographic catastrophe.