Death Stats Flashcards
What date was Bloody Sunday?
9th January 1905
How many died on Bloody Sunday, 1905?
around 190
How many died paying their respects to the mutiny on Battleship Potemkin?
2000
How many died in the Lena Goldfields massacre in 1912?
500
How many soldiers died in the WW1 battle of Tannenburg leading to the retreat from Prussia?
300,000
When was the former Tsar executed along with his family?
July 1918
How many demonstrated at the 1917 anniversary of Bloody Sunday?
150,000
What years are referred to as the Red Terror?
1918-21
What years are referred to as ‘The Great Purges?’
1936-38
How many died under the ‘Red Terror?’
500,000
How many were sent to Gulags in 1931 alone?
1,803,329
How many died in the Gulags between 1934-1953?
1,053,892
How many prisoners died building the White Sea Canal?
25,000
How many were executed at the Shakty Show Trial?
5 executed
How many were put on trial at the Shakty Show Trial?
53
How many were on the original arrest list of the Yezhovschina?
250,000
At the end of the ‘mass cleansings,’ how many returned home from the gulags?
327,000
How many party members were executed during Stalin’s purges?
600,000
How many were sentenced to death under the ‘Not One Step Backwards,’ order?
150,000
How many starved to death during the second world war?
25 million
What was the death rate in the labour camps by 1942?
25%
What percentage of ammunition was supplied by slave labour?
15%
How many doctors were sentenced to execution after the Doctor’s Plot Investigation?
9, but Stalin died before they were executed.
How many of the sentenced Doctors involved in the doctors plot died in prison before the case was reviewed?
2
