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Routledge
80 Pages
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Routledge
80 Pages
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Routledge
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This astonishing and sobering account of government- and war-induced civilian deaths in the Soviet Union calculates that Soviet loss of life between 1928 and 1954 was far higher than Western ex-perts have ever believed. Applying mathematical techniques to Soviet demographic statistics, Dyadkin shows that Stalinist repres-sion and World War II must have taken the lives of between 43 and 52 million... Read more
Introduction 1. Has No One Been Forgotten? 2. Basic Sources 3. Population Losses during the Class Elimination Period of 1929-36 4. Male Losses during Peacetime (1926-40, 1950-54) and the Gulag Population and Prison Death Rate (1950-54).5. Natural Death Rate (1927-40) and Losses from Repression and the Soviet/Finnish War of 1939-40 6. Birth and Death Rates from Unnatural Causes (1929-36) 7. War Casualties and Losses Due to Privations during World War II 8. Assumptions and Techniques 9. Potential USSR Population Changes in 1926-50 without Repressive Policies and World War II 10. Conclusion
Biography
Iosif G. Dyadkin
