9780674076082-0674076087-The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression

ISBN-13: 9780674076082
ISBN-10: 0674076087
Author: Andrzej Paczkowski, Jean-Louis Panné, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin, Nicolas Werth, Stéphane Courtois, Mark Kramer
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 858 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780674076082
ISBN-10: 0674076087
Author: Andrzej Paczkowski, Jean-Louis Panné, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin, Nicolas Werth, Stéphane Courtois, Mark Kramer
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 858 pages

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The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (ISBN-13: 9780674076082 and ISBN-10: 0674076087), written by authors Andrzej Paczkowski, Jean-Louis Panné, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin, Nicolas Werth, Stéphane Courtois, Mark Kramer, was published by Harvard University Press in 1999. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Economics (World History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Economics books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $27.8.

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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 toll mounts―as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, and on and on―the authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. An extraordinary accounting, this book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the history of the twentieth century.

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