Urban Censuses in Post-Reform Russia: Analytical Traditions and Practices
Journal: Quaestio Rossica
Year: 2022

This article analyses the historiography of using late Imperial Russian city censuses. The past three decades of historical urban studies in Russia have made such an urban census data study necessary. The city census materials are a more reliable source than the official statistics comparable with national census data. The authors analyse publications related to the urban census history and the implied original methodological solutions for using city census data. The article reconstructs the chr