Home›Sources›Yakovlev, Alexander N., "A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia" (2002)SourcesYakovlev, Alexander N., "A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia" (2002)Yakovlev, 2002Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Yakovlev, Alexander N., "A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia" (2002)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/yakovlev-a-century-of-violence-in-soviet-russia-2002.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Yakovlev, Alexander N., "A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia" (2002). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/yakovlev-a-century-of-violence-in-soviet-russia-2002Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-yakovlev-alexander-n-a-century-of-violen, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Yakovlev, Alexander N., "A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia" (2002)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/yakovlev-a-century-of-violence-in-soviet-russia-2002}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA history of Soviet-era political violence by Alexander N. Yakovlev, the reform-era Soviet official who later headed Russia's Presidential Commission for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression, drawn from ten years of research with privileged access to the Presidential Archives and other state and Party archives opened after 1991. States that the number of Orthodox monks, nuns and priests killed in the Soviet purges exceeds 200,000.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (2 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1 1Archival-access historical work by the official head of Russia's own state rehabilitation commission, published by a leading university press; the same tier as this axis's other primary archival-scholarship sources.NotesWell-attestedThe author's standing as the official head of Russia's own post-Soviet rehabilitation commission, with archival access no earlier Western or emigre historian had, is what makes this figure worth recording as a named upper pole rather than an unattributed internet total; it sits well above Pospielovsky's earlier, pre-1991-archive figure recorded elsewhere in the atlas, and that gap between an official archival reckoning and an earlier emigre-and-published-sources account is itself an honest picture of how unsettled this count remains. 1CitationAuthorWell-attestedAlexander N. Yakovlev (translated by Anthony Austin) 1PublisherWell-attestedYale University Press 1Publication YearWell-attested2002 1Source TypeWell-attestedacademic monograph 1Sources1. Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Editiontier 1Yakovlev, Alexander N., "A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia" (2002)tier 1Alexander N. Yakovlev (translated by Anthony Austin), Yale University Press, 2002Claims Backed By This Source (2 claims)This source backs 2 claims across the atlas. As facts: 1 scholarly debate. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicReligious Events, 2 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.Scholarly debate1Religious EventsSoviet Anti-Religious CampaignsGeneral References1Religious EventsSoviet Anti-Religious CampaignsComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year