Harrison, Mark (2003) Counting Soviet deaths in the Great Patriotic War : comment. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol.55 (No.6). pp. 939-944. doi:10.1080/0966813032000123097

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Abstract

Michael Haynes has pointed out that the conventional methodology for estimating the
number of Soviet war deaths provides only a lower limit. It calculates wartime
“excess” deaths, assuming that no one was killed by the war who would normally
have died anyway; this sets a lower bound on the number of real war deaths that may
have resulted directly or indirectly from enemy action. Where is the upper limit?
Haynes proposes the 16 million total of “normal” deaths as a measure of the
maximum possible downward error when real Soviet war deaths are estimated by the
excess mortality method. The possible margin of downward error arising from this
method can be calculated and is not 16 million but approximately 1.9 million.

Item Type:	Journal Item
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics 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 -- Casualties -- Statistics, World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union
Journal or Publication Title:	Europe-Asia Studies
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	0966-8136
Official Date:	21 April 2003
Dates:	Date Event 21 April 2003 ["eprint_fieldopt_dates_date_type_modified" not defined]
Volume:	Vol.55
Number:	No.6
Page Range:	pp. 939-944
DOI:	10.1080/0966813032000123097
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)

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