An unnoticed contribution to demographic transition theory
Abstract
AlexanderKulischer [Alexandre Koulicher] (1890-1942), a former professor at Petrograd University (St. Petersburg, Russia) who emigrated to France after the Russian Revolution of October 1917, may be considered one of the pioneers of the theory ofdemographic transition. However, his contribution to the developmentof this theory has gonealmost unnoticedand underrated. This article presents an intellectual biography of Alexander Kulischer and analyzes his views on the demographic transition (demographic revolution), as he expressed them in his publications in German and in French in the early 1930s. Two of these forgotten publicationswritten in French are republished (in the language of the original and in a Russian translation) in the appendix to the article.
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