Russian Real Wages Before and After 1917

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Robert Carson Allen, New York University Abu Dhabi; Ekaterina Khaustova, Arizona State University

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Project Citation: 

Allen, Robert Carson, and Khaustova, Ekaterina. Russian Real Wages Before and After 1917. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-12-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/E107509V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Prices of major consumer goods and wages of building craftsmen and labourers in Moscow, St Petersburg and Kursk were collected from administrative records and historical accounts for the years 1824-1937.  For the period 1853 to 1937 real wage measures were calculated.  There was no overall growth in real wages in the cities studied from 1853 to 1913.  The income distribution shifted against labour.  Wages increased by 50-100% after the 1917 revolution reaching a peak at the end of the New Economic Policy in 1928.  By 1937, however, real wages had dropped back to the level of the 1880s, as the first two Five Year Plans shifted resources to capital investment.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms real wages; income distribution; Russian Revolution
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Russia
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1/10/1924 – 12/31/1937 (1824-1937)
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 1/1/2014 – 12/31/2016
Universe:  View help for Universe Building and factory workers in Russia from 1853 to 1937
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; aggregate data

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source mainly from Russian and Soviet statistical handbooks
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation prices of consumer goods and wages of workers
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit The cities of St Petersburg, Moscow, and Kursk

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