Statistique et révolution en Russie

Mespoulet, Martine

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“…"In a sense the Bureau of Crop Estimates is a form of farmers' cooperation, 2 It is interesting that Judd's surveys are very similar to Max Weber's experiment aimed at gaining better knowledge of East Prussian agricultural workers (Pollak 1986). Also, Martine Mespoulet has shown that agricultural crop reporters, very similar to those described here, can be found in many countries, especially Russia, France, and Italy, towards the end of the nineteenth century (Mespoulet 2001). But nowhere have we come across the mutual influence between these practices.…”

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Counting on Relief: Industrializing the Statistical Interviewer during the New Deal

Didier

2011

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ArgumentWhen the New Deal administration attained power in the United States, it was confronted with two different problems that could be linked to one another. On the one hand, there was a huge problem of unemployment, affecting everybody including the white-collar workers. And, on the other hand, the administration suffered from a very serious lack of data to illuminate its politics. One idea that came out of this situation was to use the abundant unemployed white-collar workers as enumerators of statistical studies. This paper describes this experiment, shows how it paradoxically affected the professionalization of statistics, and explains why it did not affect expert democracy despite its Deweysian participationist aspect.

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Counting on Relief: Industrializing the Statistical Interviewer during the New Deal

Didier

2011

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“…For the Bolshevik leaders, the production of figures had to play a key information role for developing the plan and for managing the economy and society. But for the TsSU's statisticians, most of whom were formerly employed by the statistical offices of the zemstva, local self-governed authorities of the Tsarist state provinces founded in 1864, the challenge consisted above all in creating the statistical institutions and tools of a modern state, in line with the recommendations of the international statistics congresses of the nineteenth century (Mespoulet, 2001;; on statistical internationalism in the late nineteenth century, see Brian, 1989). So notwithstanding the political message conveyed by the Bolshevik government, the TsSU was organized on the model of the statistical agencies of late 19th-century European states, structured around a series of departments reflecting the main divisions of statistics of the time, and moreover constructed on the institutional and methodological bases of regional statistics as practised by the zemstva.…”

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Creating a Socialist Society and Quantification in the USSR

Mespoulet

2021

The New Politics of Numbers

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When it came to power, the Bolshevik government based the legitimacy of its action on the scientific nature of its decisions, figures being a core element. Political decisions were to be based on science, for the well-being of everyone and the fulfilment of the communist plan to create a new society and human being. Statistics, an information and decision-support tool, became now also an instrument of power to prove the soundness of state action. This raised severe tensions and repression, between statisticians following recommendations of international statistics congresses, and the new government. For the duty of statisticians was to formulate a new theory of statistics and new methods and tools. Characterizing some of these, the chapter carves out the specific nature of the Soviet Union.

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“…Nous avons alors réaffecté des dates de sortie par « hot deck », c'est-à-dire par tirage aléatoire d'un autre dossier de notre échantillon, qui avait une année d'entrée analogue. 18 0 0----7 7 7 74 4 4 4 18 5 5----7 7 7 79 9 9 9 18 8 80 0 0----8 8 8 84 4 4 4 8 8 5 5 5----8 8 89 9 9 9 18 9 0 18 9 9 1 9 9 2 2 2 9 3 18 9 94 4 18 9 9 95 5 5 5 18 9 9 96 6 6 6 18 9 97 7 7 7 18 9 9 98 8 8 18 9 9 99 9 9 9 19 0 0 00 0 0 0 19 0 0 01 1…”

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Statistique et révolution en Russie

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Counting on Relief: Industrializing the Statistical Interviewer during the New Deal

Counting on Relief: Industrializing the Statistical Interviewer during the New Deal

Creating a Socialist Society and Quantification in the USSR

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