The 20th Century - The Economist

[David Jennings [MSAI]]

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Alexandre Fenelon wrote:


>Well, the black book of Communism gives us the following estimates
>1-China: 55 millions
>2-USSR: 15 millions
>3-North Korea: 1 million
>4-Vietnam: 1 million


>I would like to know where The Economist discovered those remaining 47
>million deaths.

I seem to remember that Solzhenitsyn came up with a number like 60
million.  The page attributes the stats to something called "Statistics of
Democide" by Rudy J. Rummel.  

-david