Abstract
THIS JOURNAL HAS RECENTLY PUBLISHED two comments on my article on the comparability and reliability of the archival data on the victims of Stalinism and the Soviet secret police. The rst comment, by John Keep, agreed on the importance of assessing the scale of Stalin’s repression and did make some important points regarding the available data on this topic. Keep’s comments deserve serious consideration and I will address them below. The second comment, by Robert Conquest, was very different. It did not add anything substantial concerning the question of the reliability of the archival data. It made no attempt to understand the main arguments of my article. Instead, the comment concentrated on quibbling over minor questions, reiteration of Conquest’s earlier objections to my work, and arguments ad hominem. I will respond to Conquest’s comment rst.
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