Lasu reviewed The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy
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This book is truly an Triumph of Evil.
It's core numbers are based upon a research that was already flawed for 10 years before this book has been written. A little research might have brought up this study for example: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967067X97000111
It concludes:
New demographic evidence and NKVD criminal homicide data (TsGAOR) confirm that at least 5.2 million people classifiable as excess deaths perished during the thirties. This validates the reliability of excess deaths as a homicide estimator contrary to Anderson’s and Silver’s assertions, and strongly indicates that 4.2 million other computable excess deaths were victims of Stalinism. Higher homicide tolls in the vicinity of 13.5-14.3 million calculated by Conquest are also demographically possible, given remaining uncertainties about unregistered births during the famine years and the censuses of 1937 and 1939. These findings are consistent with the research of Nove, Ellman, Maksudov, Wheatcroft and Davies based on the …
This book is truly an Triumph of Evil.
It's core numbers are based upon a research that was already flawed for 10 years before this book has been written. A little research might have brought up this study for example: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967067X97000111
It concludes:
New demographic evidence and NKVD criminal homicide data (TsGAOR) confirm that at least 5.2 million people classifiable as excess deaths perished during the thirties. This validates the reliability of excess deaths as a homicide estimator contrary to Anderson’s and Silver’s assertions, and strongly indicates that 4.2 million other computable excess deaths were victims of Stalinism. Higher homicide tolls in the vicinity of 13.5-14.3 million calculated by Conquest are also demographically possible, given remaining uncertainties about unregistered births during the famine years and the censuses of 1937 and 1939. These findings are consistent with the research of Nove, Ellman, Maksudov, Wheatcroft and Davies based on the new demographic evidence, but disconfirm the NKVD TsGAOR criminal data which Getty, Rittersporn and Zemskov contend do not permit estimates of custodial and exile deaths above 2 million.
This "Getty, Rittersporn and Zemskov" data is what Austin Murphys book is based upon.
In my opinion, the author should have stayed with writing about sports as this equivalent of holocaust denial he put together here is a disgrace.