ABSTRACT
We have learned about the actions of those who have left their conspicuous imprints on demographic tables and about those individuals who vanished from these tables. This information was gleaned not from history books but from The Gulag Archipelago. I shall not discuss the moral and ethical aspects of these questions. The economic impact of the destruction and impoverishment of the peasantry and war losses is still felt in our everyday life and is partially reflected in the yearbooks issued by the Central Statistical Bureau (TsSU). For example, data on gross agricultural production per capita is shown in the following table:
The 1913 per capita production of meat and grain was attained in the USSR forty years later-approximately by J956. The Soviet Union's per capita production of grain (730 kg) and meat (55 kg) is still below the 760-kg grain and 154-kg meat production in Australia.'
