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The mortality rate in the Gulag, a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union, and its connection to religious persecution.
and Western records from the withdrawal era converge on roughly 13,000–15,000 for the 1979–1989 , but historians and some later studies propose higher tallies—producing a contested range from about 13...
is simultaneously a literary chronicle of and a polemical indictment of Soviet ideology; it was compiled from survivor testimonies and smuggled out of the , becoming massively influential in the West ...
Estimating how many people were killed specifically for their religion in the early Soviet years is an exercise in contested sources and methodologies, where archival tallies, contemporary lists, demo...
Scholarly estimates of excess deaths in the Soviet Union for 1917–1953 cluster around two families: archival-based totals that emphasize recorded executions, Gulag registers and NKVD files (producing ...
Scholars and commentators estimating Christian fatalities under the Bolsheviks and early Soviet regimes draw on a mix of contemporary press accounts, church lists, survivor testimony, later archival w...