Mothers in the Motherland: Stalinist Pronatalism in Its Pan-European Context

@article{Hoffmann2000MothersIT,
  title={Mothers in the Motherland: Stalinist Pronatalism in Its Pan-European Context},
  author={David L. Hoffmann},
  journal={Journal of Social History},
  year={2000},
  volume={34},
  pages={35 - 54}
}
Beginning in the nineteenth century and coming to fruition after the First World War, there developed a new way of thinking about population resources and their importance to national power. Previously, management of reproduction had been unthinkable, because it had been regarded as a natural phenomenon. But with the rise of demography, statistics (censuses), sociology, and other social sciences, reproduction became a subject of rational study and scientific management. 
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