WI Russia had gone into a demographic stagnate like France did in the 19th c?

If instead of large population growth throughout the 19th century the Russian population had stagnated so by 1939 instead of 170 million in the Soviet Union in 1939 it were half that?

How would that have affected Russian resistance to the Nazis?
 
Just how would this happen? The French demographic pattern was a product of distinctively French conditions I describe at https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...om-in-the-xviii-century.431610/#post-16115050 It hardly needs to be said that these conditions were very different from those of nineteenth century Russia. And if you're going to posit a radically different nineteenth century Russia--e.g., a revolution comparable to the French Revolution converts the peasants into French-style smallholders, a code providing for equal divisions among heirs, instead of periodic redistributions according to need by the peasant mir, etc.--then there will be many effects besides demographic ones, and even talking about "the Soviet Union in 1939" will probably be meaningless.
 
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