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 (‹See Tfd›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.