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Harrison, Mark (2019) Counting the Soviet Union’s war dead : still 26-27 million. Europe-Asia Studies, 71 (6). pp. 1036-1047. doi:10.1080/09668136.2018.1547366 ISSN 0966-8136.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2018.1547366
Abstract
How many Soviet citizens died because of World War II? A new estimate of the Soviet war dead is 42 million. This figure, from Russian historian Igor’ Ivlev, is at least 15 million more than the 26–27 million previously estimated by Russian demographers Andreev, Darskii and Khar’kova and widely accepted for a quarter of a century. I consider the implications of the two estimates for the Soviet demographic accounts, contrast their sources and methods, and conclude that the new figure lacks substantial foundations. On existing knowledge, the best estimate of Soviet war dead remains 26–27 million.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union, Ivlev, I. A. (Igorʹ Aleksandrovich) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Europe-Asia Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0966-8136 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 71 | ||||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1036-1047 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/09668136.2018.1547366 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Europe-Asia Studies on 21/12/2018 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09668136.2018.1547366 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 February 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 June 2020 |
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