Red Army Military Census forms of 1920 and 1926 as a historical source

The article presents the materials of a comparative analysis of the forms of the military censuses of the Red Army in 1920 and 1926, conducted by the author. To recreate the full picture, the author drew on the following types of historical sources: legislative acts, periodicals, as well as collections of documents and materials from the Soviet era in the form of resolutions of the Soviet government on conducting general civil and military population censuses in 1920 and 1926. Statistical collections are presented in the form of a collection of Soviet statistics for 1918–1925, as well as collections of summary results of the general census of 1920. according to industrial enterprises and the situation of the able-bodied population of 37 provinces of Soviet Russia. The historiography of the post-Soviet period is devoted to the history of statistics and socio-demographic history both in relation to the civilian population and military units in 1920 and 1926. Such work allowed for the first time in Russian historiography to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the military census forms of 1920 and 1926 in conjunction with the contents of the general population census forms of 1920 and 1926. as an integral component of the history of statistics, socio-demographic and military history of Russia in the 20s of the XX century.