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Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the archival revelations, some historians estimated that the numbers killed by Stalin's regime were 20 million or higher. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives was declassified and researchers were allowed to study it.
Historian Timothy D. Snyder wrote that it is still taken for granted that Stalin killed more people than Adolf Hitler but the estimates of 6–9 million for the Stalin regime are considerably less than originally thought, while those for Nazi Germany are higher and in line with previous estimates. [8]
The reason is simple: as a rule, people who discuss these figures are trying to convey a very specific point, namely, that Stalinism killed more people than Nazism. However, a comparison of excess mortality during Stalin's rule with mass killings perpetrated by Nazi is a comparison of apples with oranges.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Author Timothy Snyder Language English Subject Mass murders before and during World War II Genre History Publisher Basic Books Publication date 28 October 2010 Pages 544 ISBN 978-0-465-00239-9 Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin is a 2010 book by Yale historian Timothy Snyder. It is about mass murders committed before and during World War ...
Historian David Reynolds on what Winston Churchill really thought about Hitler, Stalin and other enemies.
Hannah Arendt in 1933. Hannah Arendt was one of the first scholars to publish a comparative study of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.In her 1951 work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt puts forward the idea of totalitarianism as a distinct type of political movement and form of government, which "differs essentially from other forms of political oppression ...
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression is a 1997 [note 1] book by Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Margolin, and several other European academics [note 2] documenting a history of political repression by communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, and deaths in labor camps and allegedly artificially created ...
Snyder is not a God. Most historians recognize that Stalin killed more people than Hitler— Preceding unsigned comment added by Erni120 (talk • contribs) 13:07, 31 October 2017 (UTC) Well, I think this whole section is too big. Here is the point: no one knows exact numbers, and a lot of people operate with numbers that represent different ...