Lorsqu’il est question des répressions de la période stalinienne (1924-1953), on pense généralement en priorité aux victimes russes. Si celles-ci furent, bien entendu, extrêmement nombreuses, il convient aussi de se souvenir des millions de personnes habitant les marges de l’empire soviétique qui ont subi les effets de la politique impitoyable mise...
Background: Research on annual migration between regions of the same country is scarce because statistical sources are often lacking. Consequently, little is known about migration between French regions during the Second World War. Objective: Propose a new method to estimate the annual populations of each region and deduce the annual migration flow...
This article examines the cases of 15 Jewish policemen who worked in ghettos in Lithuania during WW2 and who were put on trial in Soviet Lithuania between 1944 and 1952. The aim is contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of whether or not Soviet police and court officials considered the specific nature of Jewish and ghetto life during the ...
Background: Debates concerning the French territorial divide are deep in France. However, few historical data on French demography at the local level for the 20th century are available for the study of these territorial disputes. Objective: The main objective is to present a new demographic database built at the departmental level for the 20th cent...
Cette thèse analyse les enjeux, les logiques et les modalités de la construction de la décentralisation industrielle comme objet de réforme et d’action publique. La période d’étude s’étend du renouveau des débats à l’aube du XXe siècle jusqu’à l’institutionnalisation de cette action au tournant des années 1950, mobilisant plusieurs fonds d’archives...
During the twentieth century, the history of Eastern Europe was marked by political upheavals that severely impacted health and mortality trends. Following the First World War, the health transition accelerated in several new states built on the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires, while in the newly formed USSR the Stalinist dictator...
The Exodus of May-June 1940 remains in the French memory a traumatic episode.However, the internal population flows due to the war did notstop in 1940.This paper analyzes these internal flows of refugees in France during the whole Second World War.To do so,I present a method for estimating intercensal local populations from three kinds of statistic...
