{"id":12617,"date":"2020-01-29T06:50:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=12617"},"modified":"2020-01-29T17:52:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T22:52:43","slug":"how-many-lives-were-lost-under-socialist-regimes-during-the-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/01\/29\/how-many-lives-were-lost-under-socialist-regimes-during-the-20th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"How many lives were lost under socialist regimes during the 20th century?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"523\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200129_0546492.jpg\" alt=\"How many lives were lost under socialite regimes during the 20th century?\" class=\"wp-image-12610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200129_0546492.jpg 523w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200129_0546492-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><figcaption>How many lives were lost under socialist regimes during the 20th century?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/aw012920-2.jpg\" alt=\"Is this really a question, or are you trying to make a point to people who read these?\" class=\"wp-image-12630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/aw012920-2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/aw012920-2-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Is this really a question, or are you trying to make a point to people who read these?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThat number would be markedly different depending on what you mean. If you mean deaths of citizens directly attributable to their socialist governments (i.e., what one might call state-sponsored murder, or &#8220;democide,&#8221;) it&#8217;s one number. If you mean deaths of citizens *indirectly* (i.e. owing to military campaigns or resource management) that&#8217;s a quite different number. Also, is your definition of socialism narrow (only including totalitarian socialist states) or broad (also including countries briefly governed by democratically elected socialists, such as Allende in Chile?) I recommend searching &#8220;democide&#8221; in the Historical Abstracts database.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That number would be markedly different depending on what you mean. If you mean deaths of citizens directly attributable to their socialist governments (i.e., what one might call state-sponsored murder, or &#8220;democide,&#8221;) it&#8217;s one number. If you mean deaths of citizens *indirectly* (i.e. owing to military campaigns or resource management) that&#8217;s a quite different number. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/01\/29\/how-many-lives-were-lost-under-socialist-regimes-during-the-20th-century\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How many lives were lost under socialist regimes during the 20th century?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12641,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions\/12641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}