The Black Book of Communism : Crimes, Terror, Repression

by Stephane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panne, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin

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Title: The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression Author: Courtois, Werth, Panne, Paczkowski, Bartosek, and Margolin Publisher: Harvard University Press (2000-Third Printing) Condition: Very Good+ hardcover. Spine straight. Binding solid. Corners and spine ends square. Pages clean, bright, unmarked. Very Good jacket has light shelf rubbing and wear. DESCRIPTION: Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive attempt to catalogue and analyze the crimes of Communism over seventy years. "Revolutions, like trees, must be judged by their fruit," Ignazio Silone wrote, and this is the standard the authors apply to the Communist experience―in the China of "the Great Helmsman," Kim Il Sung's Korea, Vietnam under "Uncle Ho" and Cuba under Castro, Ethiopia under Mengistu, Angola under Neto, and Afghanistan under Najibullah. The authors, all distinguished scholars based in Europe, document Communist crimes against humanity, but also crimes against national and universal culture, from Stalin's destruction of hundreds of churches in Moscow to Ceausescu's leveling of the historic heart of Bucharest to the widescale devastation visited on Chinese culture by Mao's Red Guards. As the death tol

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2000
• ISBN: 9780674076082
• Condition: Very Good

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