Soviet Repression Statistics: Some Comments

Ellman, Michael

doi:10.1080/0966813022000017177

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“…29 However, Ellman provacatively adds, there was nothing unique in the focus on targets other than famine relief: in 1943, the British government in India "was more interested in the war effort than in saving the life of Bengalis" (Ellman 2002). But see also Ellman (2005) and Davies and Wheatcroft (2006).…”

Section: Stalin's Faminesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Famine History

Gráda

2007

Journal of Economic Literature

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Section: Stalin's Faminesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Famine History

Gráda

2007

Journal of Economic Literature

136

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“…There is no doubt that harvest data were deliberately falsified throughout the Stalin period (Wheatcroft and Davies 1994). This manipulation also concerned demographic (Tolts 2001) and repression statistics (Ellman 2002). For other topics, the situation is less clear.…”

Section: The Politicization Of Statistical Informationmentioning

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Food availability, food entitlements, and radicalism during the Chinese great leap forward famine: an econometric panel data analysis

Clément

2011

Cliometrica

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The purpose of this article is to investigate the socio-economic as well as the political, institutional, and ideological causes of the Chinese famine of 1959–1961. The main hypothesis of this paper is that the radical policies implemented as part of the Great Leap Forward resulted in agricultural output decline (i.e., availability issues), and in the implementation of an ineffective food distribution policy affecting rural populations (i.e., accessibility issues). An econometric analysis, based on provincial panel data from the 1954–1966 period, stresses the effect of ill-advised economic policies in handling the famine. This analysis also confirms that the increase in mortality rates during the famine was caused by the simultaneous collapse in food availability and food accessibility in rural areas.Great leap forward, Famine, Food availability, Entitlements, Dynamic panel data models, Generalized method of moments

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“…During this time, Stalin eliminated the old Bolshevik order from within the ranks of the Party, decimated the military's officer corps, and set out to rid Soviet society of any trace of dissent or opposition -real or imagined. Figures vary, but Ellman's (2002) seem to be the best regarded, putting the victim tally for those years at between 900,000 and 1.2 million people executed, intentionally killed at camps, or who died during transit. 2.…”

Section: Post-soviet Affairsmentioning

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“…As noted earlier, there is considerable controversy about the true number of victims of Stalinist repression in general and of the Terror (1937 -1938) specifically (Conquest 1990;Wheatcroft 1999Wheatcroft , 2000Ellman 2002). Ellman (2002Ellman ( , 1162 puts "repression deaths" for 1937 and 1938 -deaths that occurred as a result of execution, mistreatment during transit, or execution or other intentional killing while in the camps -at 950,000 to 1.2 million. He estimates the number of prisoners in the Gulag during the period 1934-1953 at 18.75 million, although he notes that this figure is likely a bit high owing to some people being incarcerated (and counted) multiple times.…”

Section: Post-soviet Affairsmentioning

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History as ideology: the portrayal of Stalinism and the Great Patriotic War in contemporary Russian high school textbooks

Nelson

2014

Post-Soviet Affairs

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Using data from fieldwork conducted in late 2009, this paper examines the Russian educational sphere and initiatives by the political elite to control and manipulate textbook content, testing objectives, and the structuring of curricula in order to maximize exposure to, and absorption of, its preferred narratives. Using a more detailed critical analysis of textbook content, I show that methods of discursive manipulation are used to highlight positive aspects of the Stalinist period -especially victory in World War II -while downplaying its political repression. This manipulation allows the state to both legitimize its version of Stalinist history and to perpetuate the underlying legitimizing function that version serves. In this way, the discourse implicitly justifies Putin's centralized state as the type of system that has historically produced great achievements for Russia. This article adds to the literature on the manipulation of educational content for political purposes generally, and in the case of Russia specifically.

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Soviet Repression Statistics: Some Comments

Cited by 99 publications

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Making Famine History

Making Famine History

Food availability, food entitlements, and radicalism during the Chinese great leap forward famine: an econometric panel data analysis

History as ideology: the portrayal of Stalinism and the Great Patriotic War in contemporary Russian high school textbooks

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