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The Black Book of Communism : Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stephane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panne Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin, Jonathan Murphy, Mark Kramer is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Wide-scale 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.--jacket. Foreword : The Uses Of Atrocity / Martin Malia -- Introduction : The Crimes Of Communism / Stéphane Courtois -- Pt. 1. A State Against Its People : Violence, Repression, And Terror In The Soviet Union / Nicho

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Author
Stephane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panne Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin, Jonathan Murphy, Mark Kramer
Publisher
Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
Published
1999
Language
EN
ISBN
9780674076082
Category
history
Subjects
Political Science, Social Science, Fiction
Rating
4.11 / 5 (436 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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