The 20th Century - The Economist

[Alexandre Fenelon]

At 08:21 14/09/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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

I've read this page in the Web. There is no bibliography and no serious
research there. I think Solzhenitsyn isn't known exactly as a good 
historian or serious researcher. As academic work, Werth's book is
much more reliable.

                                Alexandre
>
>