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Robert Conquest, RIP

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Lawrence Person

Robert Conquest, one of the leading historians of Soviet genocide, has died at age 98. It’s hard to remember now, but for most of the Cold War, western liberals vehemently denied that genocide had occurred in the Soviet Union (or … Continue reading →

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Current Death Estimate for the Great Leap Forward: 45 Million

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Lawrence Person

According to historian Frank Dikotter, who examined hundreds of documents across China from 2005-2009. Dikotter is author of Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962, which I haven’t read yet. But some of the descriptions of … Continue reading →

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How Many People Did Communism Kill?

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Lawrence Person

When I posted about making May 1st Victims of Communism Day, I was not at all surprised that some on the left would get their knickers into a knot over the very idea. However, I was surprised that one left … Continue reading →

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