Rev. of: A.I. Repinetsky. Listaya stranitsy perepisey. Naseleniye Samarskoy oblasti po materialam vseobshchikh perepisey naseleniya. Ch. I. 1897–1945 gg. Samara: Nauchno-tekhnicheskiy tsentr; IP Virolaynen I.V., 2024. 383 p., ill.

The review examines a new monograph by A.I. Repinetsky, a renowned specialist in historical demography. Based on materials from the general population censuses (1897, 1920, 1926, 1937, 1939) and archival documents, the monograph reconstructs the demographic history of the Samara Volga region from 1897 to 1945. The reviewer highly appreciates the systematic analysis of population dynamics, gender and age, social and ethnic composition, as well as literacy and marriage rates against the backdrop of major historical events: the First World War, the Civil War, famine, industrialization, repressions, and the Great Patriotic War. Special attention in the review is paid to Repinetsky's methodological approach, particularly his introduction of data from the previously classified 1937 census into scholarly discourse and his handling of the issue of changing administrative borders of the region. The monograph is characterized as a significant contribution to historical demography, with practical relevance for understanding contemporary socio-demographic processes.