Viktor Zemskov

Viktor Nikolaevich Zemskov
Виктор Николаевич Земсков
Born(1946-01-30)30 January 1946
Soviet Union
Died22 July 2015(2015-07-22) (aged 69)
NationalityRussian
CitizenshipRussia
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forHis studies on political repression in the Soviet Union
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
Institutionsthe 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]

  1. ^ Viktor Zemskov on the website of the Institute of Russian History
  2. ^ "ВИКТОР НИКОЛАЕВИЧ ЗЕМСКОВ. Некролог". Institute of Russian History. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "A History of Twentieth-Century Russia. Critical Compassion to the Russian Revolution". The Economist. Vol. 346. 1998. p. 85.