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This university organization republished this account in 1993 and may have been the very book mentioned by Richard Rahn. It may have been misquoted in a ''Pravda'' article—if ''Pravda'' published it at all and was the mode of transmission—and picked up by Rahn or misunderstood by Rahn. In 1993 this may have been the first official acknowledgement by Moscow of these figures or the first time ''Pravda'' had reported them.
This university organization republished this account in 1993 and may have been the very book mentioned by Richard Rahn. It may have been misquoted in a ''Pravda'' article—if ''Pravda'' published it at all and was the mode of transmission—and picked up by Rahn or misunderstood by Rahn. In 1993 this may have been the first official acknowledgement by Moscow of these figures or the first time ''Pravda'' had reported them.
Seven years after Dyadkin's book (1990), R. J. Rummel did extensive calculations and had written in 1990: 61,911,000 democides in the USSR 1917-87, of which 51,755,000 occurred during the Stalin years.
There is that 62-63 million figure again for the third time. But each time refers to different intervals.
In 1983 it was from 1928-1954. In 1990 it stretched from 1917-1987. In 1993 it was back down to 1923-1953.
The 1993 transmission error, the hypothetical ''Pravda'' article, probably had two sources: 62 million by R. J. Rummel (1917-1987) and 56-62 million by Dyadkin a writer thinking 1928-1954 was the ''only'' significant period where the gulag executed prisoners in the millions.
This would have resulted in a two-sourced figure of 62 million ''about'' during the time of Stalin (1928-1954 is close to 1923-1953).
So in closing: To correct the error I think we should take Rummel's seven-years-more-researched 62 million for 1917 to 1987 together with a weighted combination of Rummel's 51.8 million and the less-researched, but ''more-intensely'' researched for ''that time period'' of 34-49 million of Dyadkin for the Stalin era (1923-1953). [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] ([[User talk:VargasMilan|talk]]) 17:54, 10 October 2018 (EDT)
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