Century of State Murder?

Mike Haynes is Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the co-author of A Century of State Murder? (Pluto, 2003).Rumy Husan is Senior Lecturer at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex. He is co-author of A Century of State Murder? (Pluto, 2003).

'A vivid and chilling account of some of the most terrible events of modern history'

• List of Tables List of Figures Preface and Acknowledgements The USSR in the Late Stalin Era The Four Great Mortality Crises in Twentieth-Century USSR-Russia Glossary and Abbreviations 1. Demography – the Social Mirror? Lies, damned lies and statistics? Murder most foul? A century of population change in Russia The mirror of society? 2. The Revolt Against Class Society 1890–1928 Mortality in Tsarist Russia The class pattern of death War and repression Revolution and the vision of the future The waning dream 3. Death and the Stalin Era 1929–53 The pressure of accumulation The total number Death and repression The determinants of the ‘normal’ death rate Wars The end of the Stalin Era 4. Policy, Inequalities and Death in the USSR 1953–85 Judicial death and repression Imperialism and war The pattern of normal death Explaining the patterns of death National variations within the USSR vi A Century of State Murder?5. The End of Perestroika and the Transition Crisisof the 1990s Perestroika and the collapse of the USSR 1985–91 Shock therapy reforms of 1992 The Impact of Reforms: low pay, poverty and inequality Mistaken assumptions underlying the reform programme 6. ‘Normal’ deaths During the First Decade of Transition Unprecedented peacetime mortality Why so many deaths? Key factors of mortality decline 7. Yeltsin, Putin and ‘Abnormal’ Deaths 1992–2002 Collective violence and ‘intentional’ deaths Political crisis and civil unrest Death and disease in prisons Torture and state executions The war in Chechnya 8. Conclusion Class inequality and a ‘quiet violence’ A century of state murder Appendix: Basic Data on the Prison Camp Systemunder Stalin Notes Bibliography Index