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Population pyramid of the Soviet Union in 1950. After the Second World War, the population of the Soviet Union began to gradually recover to pre-war levels. By 1959 there were a registered 209,035,000 people, over the 1941 population count of 196,716,000. In 1958–59, Soviet fertility stood at around 2.8 children per woman. [2]
The following is a summary of censuses carried out in the Soviet Union: Year Territory (km 2) Total population Rank Density per km 2 Change Urban population Share ...
The new census announced the Soviet Union's population to be 208,826,650, [4] an increase of almost forty million from the results of the last (disputed) census from 1939. [5] A majority of this population increase was due to the Soviet territorial expansion of the 1939–1945 time period, rather than due to natural population growth. [6]
The size of the Soviet military was reduced by nearly 2 million men in 1955–57, and further cuts followed in 1958 and 1960. These cuts in troop strength were not well planned out and many soldiers and officers were left jobless and homeless.
The Soviet Union, thanks to the military buildup of the 1960s, solidified its status as a superpower during Brezhnev's rule. However, this era was also marked by the Era of Stagnation , a period characterized by economic, political, and social decline, which persisted under Brezhnev's successors, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko .
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, drew support from hard-line communists and the Soviet population by criticizing Brezhnev's rule, and referred to his rule as the "Era of Stagnation". [168] Despite these attacks, in a poll taken in 2006, 61 percent of the people responded that they viewed the Brezhnev era as good for Russia.
9 Timeline. 10 See also. 11 Citations. ... Almost the entire Soviet population of ethnic Koreans (171,781 people) ... In the mid-1960s, the process of rehabilitation ...
Timeline. 860–1721 • 1721 ... Until the early 1960s, the Soviet navy was a rather small military branch, ... Population of the Soviet Union (red) ...