>Doug, did not Eberstat write a great deal about the excess deaths in the
>Soviet Union prior to the restoration of capitalism due to alcoholism
>and the like? If so, the post refers to an excess in addition to an
>excess of deaths.
Eberstadt did write about that, which was also a favorite theme of the New York Review of Books in the 1980s. Most of Eberstadt's piece is pretty bad, but citing him writing in a Heritage journal is a nice way to prevent people from calling you an apologist for the USSR.
Doug