Demography
the social mirror?
The revolt against class society 1890-1928
Death and the Stalin era 1929-1953
Death from Khrushchev to Gorbachev 1953-1985
The end of Perestroika and the transition crisis of the 1990s
'Normal' deaths during the first decade of transition
Yeltsin, Putin and 'abnormal' deaths 1992-2002
Conclusion
Appendix: Basic data on the prison camp system under Stalin.
A century of state murder? : death and policy in twentieth-century Russia by Michael Haynes. ISBN 0745319300. Published by Pluto in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.