By the Numbers: Legacy of terror
The footprint of Lenin’s bloody revolution
Illustration by Krieg Barrie
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100
The number of years since Vladimir Lenin’s death on Jan. 21, 1924. Though the power of Marxism-Leninism has faded, Lenin’s 1917 revolution stained the 20th century with widespread privation and bloodshed.
9 million
The number of deaths attributable to the Russian Revolution of 1917, according to historian Richard Pipes. The horrors continued with the 1921-1922 Soviet famine, which resulted in the deaths of another estimated 5 million people.
54,174
The number of Orthodox churches in the Russian empire on the eve of the revolution—a number that fell to less than 500 in 1939 after Lenin began a campaign of religious persecution that Stalin intensified.
5
The number of communist countries remaining in the world: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam.
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