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====Solzhenitsyn====

====Solzhenitsyn====

In 1973, in his ''Gulag Archipelago'', [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] cited Kurganov, who counted 66 million lives that "internal repression cost us" between 1917 and 1959<ref>Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich (1973). ''The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation'' transl. Thomas P. Whitney and Harry Willetts, abridg. Edward E. Ericson, Jr.,  (New York: HarperCollins, 2002 First Perennial classics ed., abridg. ed., 2007 Harper Perennial Modern Classics series), p. 178.</ref> Solzhenitsyn later reduced his estimate to 60 million.  So the earliest and primary acknowledged public expert (and related 1970 Nobel Prize winner) on the history of the Gulags is a fourth investigator who straddles the same population total range. [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] ([[User talk:VargasMilan|talk]]) 12:04, 11 October 2018 (EDT)  

In 1973, in his ''Gulag Archipelago'', [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] cited Kurganov, who counted 66 million lives that "internal repression cost us" between 1917 and 1959<ref>Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich (1973). ''The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation'' transl. Thomas P. Whitney and Harry Willetts, abridg. Edward E. Ericson, Jr.,  (New York: HarperCollins, 2002 First Perennial classics ed., abridg. ed., 2007 Harper Perennial Modern Classics series), p. 178.</ref> Solzhenitsyn later reduced his estimate to 60 million.  So the earliest and primary acknowledged public expert (and related 1970 Nobel Prize winner) on the history of the Gulags is a fourth investigator who straddles nearly the same range of the total government depopulation in the Soviet Union. [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] ([[User talk:VargasMilan|talk]]) 12:04, 11 October 2018 (EDT)  

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