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Rudolph Rummel

1932 - 2014

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Rudolph Joseph Rummel (October 21, 1932 – March 2, 2014) was an American political scientist, a statistician and professor at Indiana University, Yale University, and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He spent his career studying data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination. Contrasting genocide, Rummel coined the term democide for murder by government, such as the genocide of indigenous peoples and colonialism, Nazi Germany, the Stalinist purges, Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, and other authoritarian, totalitarian, or undemocratic regimes, coming to the conclusion that democratic regimes result in the least democides. Rummel estimated that a total of 212 million people were killed by all governments during the 20th century, of which 148 million were killed by Communist governments from 1917 to 1987. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolph Rummel is the 247th most popular historian (up from 473rd in 2019), the 4,372nd most popular biography from United States (up from 7,996th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Historian.

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Among historians, Rudolph Rummel ranks 247 out of 561. Before him are Ibn Hayyan, Alexander Vasiliev, Bernard Desclot, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, and Muhammad Aufi. After him are Natalie Zemon Davis, Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, Sigfried Giedion, Guglielmo Ferrero, Charles Rollin, and Iryna Melnykova.

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Among people born in 1932, Rudolph Rummel ranks 211. Before him are Igor Kirillov, Helmut Griem, Stefanie Zweig, Bernhard Vogel, Blagoje Adžić, and Katarina Taikon. After him are Henri Namphy, Christiane Kubrick, Vasco de Almeida e Costa, Henri Nouwen, Oreco, and Richard G. Hovannisian. Among people deceased in 2014, Rudolph Rummel ranks 180. Before him are Juan Gelman, Pierre Bec, James Rebhorn, Stefanie Zweig, Horace Silver, and Michael Sata. After him are Viscera, Edward Clancy, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Bernard Agré, Rafael Addiego Bruno, and Wubbo Ockels.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rudolph Rummel ranks 4,372 out of 20,380. Before him are Mildred Natwick (1905), Jackie Gleason (1916), Robert Lansing (1864), Richard Hamming (1915), Mack Swain (1876), and Billy Blanks (1955). After him are Todd Howard (1971), Sarah Paulson (1974), Randy Savage (1952), Greg Kinnear (1963), Angélica María (1943), and Abigail Fillmore (1798).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Rudolph Rummel ranks 13. Before him are Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), Timothy D. Snyder (1969), Christopher Browning (1944), Linda Nochlin (1931), Howard Zinn (1922), and Deborah Lipstadt (1947). After him are Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), William H. Prescott (1796), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Efraim Zuroff (1948), and Robert Darnton (1939).

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