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Frank Dikotter, whose book Mao’s Great Famine is generally recognized as the most scholarly study of this period, has estimated the total at 45 million.
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Frank Dikotter, whose book Mao’s Great Famine is generally recognized as the most scholarly study of this period, has estimated the total at 45 million.
https://www.amazon.com/Maos-Great-Famine-Devastating-Catastrophe/dp/0802779239
Many of those who dispute this figure have a political interest in the answer, which Dikotter himself seems to avoid.