Viktor Nikolaevich Zemskov | |
|---|---|
| Виктор Николаевич Земсков | |
| Born | 30 January 1946 |
| Died | 22 July 2015 (aged 69) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship | Russia |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | His studies on political repression in the Soviet Union |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History |
| Institutions | the Institute of Russian History |
Viktor Nikolaevich Zemskov (Russian: Ви́ктор Никола́евич Земско́в, 30 January 1946 – 22 June 2015) was a Soviet and Russian historian, doctor (habil.) of historical sciences (2005), and research associate of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[1][2] He was a specialist on the Gulag.[3] Zemskov revealed in detail the secret-police statistics about the Gulag, resolving many disputes among Western historians about the number of people affected by political repression in the Soviet Union.[4]
- ^ Viktor Zemskov on the website of the Institute of Russian History
- ^ "ВИКТОР НИКОЛАЕВИЧ ЗЕМСКОВ. Некролог". Institute of Russian History. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ Klimkova, Oxana (Winter 2007). "Special Settlements in Soviet Russia in the 1930s–50s". Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 8 (1): 105–139. doi:10.1353/kri.2007.0009. ISSN 1538-5000. S2CID 161377890.
- ^ "A History of Twentieth-Century Russia. Critical Compassion to the Russian Revolution". The Economist. Vol. 346. 1998. p. 85.