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Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-War Years: A First Approach on the Basis of Archival Evidence

J. Arch Getty; Gábor T. Rittersporn; Viktor N. Zemskov · The American Historical Review 98(4), 1017–1049 · 1993

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Article
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J. Arch Getty; Gábor T. Rittersporn; Viktor N. Zemskov
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DOI 10.2307/2166597
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2026-09-01
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Publishes NKVD/MVD statistics on convictions, death sentences, camp and colony populations and recorded deaths.

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EstablishedSoviet NKVD statistics published from the archives record 681,692 death sentences in 1937–1938, the peak of the Great Terror.