The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression - 1999
by COURTOIS, Stephane et al
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Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller not only documents 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. 78 halftones.
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- Title The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
- Author COURTOIS, Stephane et al
- Binding
- Edition 1st edn
- Condition Used - Near Fine
- Pages 912
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard U P, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date 1999
- Features Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # PP4704
- ISBN 9780674076082
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
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From the jacket flap
"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 II 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. 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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Citations
- Atlantic Monthly, 03/01/2000, Page 113
- Booklist, 09/01/1999, Page 41
- Ingram Advance, 10/01/1999, Page 191
- Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/1999, Page 1366
- Library Journal, 11/01/1999, Page 100
- LJ Best Books of Year, 01/01/2000, Page 48
- New York Times, 01/02/2000, Page 12
- Publishers Weekly, 08/23/1999, Page 36
