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You really need to normalize your numbers a bit. Hard to kill ten million people, when there are not that many in your country. Population total, density, and travel time all seem relevant. When it takes longer from travel from place to place, and there are fewer folk per area, that limits how many folk you can kill.
Past leaders may of nature have been just as brutal and barbaric, but were limited by the technologies of the day.
Commented Jul 20, 2018 on Tyrannies: An In-Take from "Slouching Towards Utopia?: An Economic History of the Long 20th Century" at Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
Tyrannies: An In-Take from "Slouching Towards Utopia?: An Economic History of the Long 20th Century"
The twentieth century’s tyrannies were more brutal and more barbaric than those of any previous age. And—astonishingly—they had much of their origins in economic discontents and economic ideologies. People killed each other in large numbers over, largely, questions of how the economy should be ...
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