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A century of state murder? : death and policy in twentieth-century Russia / Michael Haynes and Rumy Husan.
Lippincott Library HB1437 .H39 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haynes, Michael, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mortality--Soviet Union--History.
- Mortality.
- Mortality--Russia (Federation).
- Population policy.
- History.
- Life expectancy.
- Russia (Federation).
- Life expectancy--Soviet Union--History.
- Life expectancy--Russia (Federation).
- Soviet Union--Statistics, Vital--History.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Population policy.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- Demography
- the social mirror?
- The revolt against class society, 1890-1928
- Stalin, mass repression and death, 1929-53
- Policy, inequalities and death in the USSR, 1953-85
- The end of Perestroika and the transition crisis of the 1990s
- 'Normal' deaths during the first decade of transition
- Yeltsin, Putin and 'abnormal' deaths, 1992-2002
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Basic data on the prison camp system under Stalin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0745319319
- 0745319300
- OCLC:
- 51838442
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