Home›Sources›Merridale, Catherine, "The 1937 Census and the Limits of Stalinist Rule" (1996)SourcesMerridale, Catherine, "The 1937 Census and the Limits of Stalinist Rule" (1996)The Historical Journal, vol. 39, 1996Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Merridale, Catherine, "The 1937 Census and the Limits of Stalinist Rule" (1996)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/merridale-1937-census-limits-stalinist-rule-1996.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Merridale, Catherine, "The 1937 Census and the Limits of Stalinist Rule" (1996). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/merridale-1937-census-limits-stalinist-rule-1996Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-merridale-catherine-the-1937-census-and, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Merridale, Catherine, "The 1937 Census and the Limits of Stalinist Rule" (1996)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/merridale-1937-census-limits-stalinist-rule-1996}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXCatherine Merridale's peer-reviewed study of the 1937 Soviet population census, the one census in Soviet history to ask a religious-belief question, examines why its findings on demography and religion proved unacceptable to Stalin's government and traces the suppression of its results and the arrest of the officials who conducted it. Its strength is direct engagement with the archival record of a single, tightly documented episode; its limit is that as a journal article it does not attempt a general history of Soviet religious policy.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (2 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedCatherine Merridale 1PublisherWell-attestedThe Historical Journal (Cambridge University Press) 1Publication YearWell-attested1996 1Source TypeWell-attestedJournal article 1AssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1 1A peer-reviewed article in a major academic history journal, built from Soviet archival sources, written by a historian who went on to publish extensively on Soviet-era political and religious history; the standard scholarly citation for this specific episode.Sources1. Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Editiontier 1Claims Backed By This Source (2 claims)This source backs 2 claims across the atlas. As facts: 1 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicReligious Events, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested1Religious EventsSoviet Anti-Religious CampaignsGeneral References1Religious EventsSoviet Anti-Religious CampaignsComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year