Incomes and Expenditures of Collective Farmers Large Families in Sverdlovsk Region (according to the data of budgetary surveys of 1965)

Abstract

The article studies the problem of material living conditions of large families in the USSR. The study was conducted on the materials of the State Archives of the Sverdlovsk Region (SASR) and the current archive of the Territorial Body of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Sverdlovsk Region (TBFSSSSR), involving Internet sources, as well as scientific and journalistic literature. The relevance of the topic is due to its importance for the social sciences, especially for history, sociology and economics. The scientific novelty of the work is seen in the fact that new materials discovered by the author in the funds of these archives are introduced into use. The article focuses on the analysis of incomes and expenditures of collective farmers large families. It is noted that large families have rarely been the object of research by sociologists and historians. It is stated that it did not have a social or demographic effect in the form and in the amounts state support was provided to large families. It is stated that serious differentiation of average per capita monetary incomes and expenditures of the surveyed families of collective farmers was not observed. The significant role of personal subsidiary plot (PSP) in the economy of the families surveyed is proved. It is declared that most of the expenses of large families of collective farmers were the costs of food products and non-food industrial goods. It is concluded that even taking into account the incomes from PSP per capita incomes (and, accordingly, expenses) of large families were significantly lower than the same indicators of families of urban workers, and collective farmers in the Sverdlovsk region.