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Table of Contents:
  • Demography--the social mirror?
  • The revolt against class society 1890-1928
  • Death and the Stalin era 1929-1953
  • Death from Khrushchev to Gorbachev 1953-1985
  • 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.