Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto.
Approx 61 million dead in Russia since Communism was adopted. Ever wonder how the 43 million that died under Lenin alone felt about Marx?
We will NOT go quitely into the night!
I love the made up number bs...as if the facts are not to be found
Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
•Eckhardt: 500,000 civ. + 300,000 mil. = 800,000
•Readers Companion to Military History, Cowley and Parker, eds. (1996) [
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/mil/html/mh_045400_russiancivil.htm]: ◦Combat deaths: 825,000
◦Ancillary deaths: 2,000,000
◦TOTAL: 2,825,000
•Davies, Norman (Europe A History, 1998) ◦Civil War and Volga Famine (1918-22): 3,000,000 to 5,000,000
•Brzezinski, Z: ◦6 to 8 million people died under Lenin from war, famine etc.
•Mastering Twentieth Century Russian History by Norman Lowe (2002) ◦TOTAL: 7,000,000 to 10,000,000
◦Red Army ◾Battle: 632,000
◾Disease: 581,000
◦Whites: 1,290,000 battle + disease
◦White Terror: "tens of thousands"
◦Red Terror ◾Executed: 50-200,000
◾Died in prison or killed in revolts: 400,000
◦Typhoid + typhus ◾1919: 890,000
◾1920: >1M
•Urlanis: ◦Military deaths: 800,000 ◾Battle deaths, all sides: 300,000
◾Dead of wounds: 50,000
◾Disease: 450,000
◦Civilians: 8,000,000
◦TOTAL: 8,800,000
•Dyadkin, I.G. (cited in Adler, N., Victims of Soviet Terror, 1993) ◦9 million unnatural deaths from terror, famine and disease, 1918-23
•Richard Pipes, A concise history of the Russian Revolution (1995): 9 million deaths, 1917-1922 ◦Famine: 5M
◦Combat: 2M ◾Reds: 1M
◾Whites: 127,000
◦Epidemics: 2M
◦not incl. ◾Emigration: 2M
◾Birth deficit: 14M
•Rummel: ◦Civil War (1917-22) ◾War: 1,410,000 (includes 500,000 civilian)
◾Famine: 5,000,000 (50% democidal)
◾Other democide: 784,000
◾Epidemics: 2,300,000
◾Total: 9,494,000
◦Lenin's Regime (1917-24) ◾Rummel blames Lenin for a lifetime total of 4,017,000 democides.
•Figes, Orlando (A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution, 1997) ◦10 million deaths from war, terror, famine and disease. ◾Including... ◾Famine (1921-22): 5 million
◾Killed in fighting, both military and civilian: 1M
◾Jews killed in pogroms: 150,000
◾Not including... ◾Demographic effects of a hugely reduced birth-rate: 10M
◾Emmigration: 2M
•McEvedy, Colin (Atlas of World Population History, 1978) ◦War deaths: 2M
◦Other excess deaths: 14M
◦Reduced births: 10M
◦Emmigration: 2M
•MEDIAN: Of these ten estimates that claim to be complete, the median is 8.8M-9.0M.
•PARTIALS: ◦Small & Singer (battle deaths, 1917-21) ◾Russian Civil War (Dec.1917-Oct.1920) ◾Russians: 500,000
◾Allied Intervention: ◾Japan: 1,500
◾UK: 350
◾USA: 275
◾France: 50
◾Finland: 50
◾Russian Nationalities War (Dec.1917-Mar.1921) ◾USSR: 50,000
◦Bruce Lincoln, Red Victory: a History of the Russian Civil War 1918-1921 ◾Death sentences by the Cheka: ca. 100,000
◾Pogroms: as many as one in 13 Jews k. out of 1.5M in Ukraine [i.e. ca. 115,000] (citing Heifetz)
◦Nevins, citing Heifetz and the Red Cross: 120,000 Jews killed in 1919 pogroms [
http://www.west.net/~jazz/felshtin/redcross.html]
◦Richard Overy, Russia's War (1997): Cheka responsible for maybe 250,000+ violent deaths.
◦Paul Johnson ◾50,000 death sentences imposed by the Cheka by 12/20
◾100,000 Jews killed in 1919
◦Green, Barbara (in Rosenbaum, Is the Holocaust Unique?) ◾4 to 5 million deaths in the famine of 1921-23
◦Max Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace ◾North Russia: 244 USAns d. incl. 144 k.battle
◾Siberia: 160 USAns KIA + 168 other d.
◾[US Total: 304 KIA + 268 other = 572 d.]
◾Czech Legion: 13,000 dead.
