. Sickness rate, death-rate, birth rate and medical care of people in Soviet province in 1920-1930s (on the basis of the astrakhan region's sources)

Abstract

In this article the author leans on rich statistical material and passes the comparative analysis of level of sickness rate, death rate, birth rate and medical care in the pre-revolutionary and soviet Russia of period of New Economic Policy and Stalin industrialization. The author connects the demographic processes with political and socio-economic situation in Astrakhan region and determines when government created the most favorable conditions for reduces the level of sickness rate and death rate of Soviet people.