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9%OFFStephane Courtois - The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression - 9780674076082 - V9780674076082
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The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression

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Description for The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression Hardback. This work plumbs 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. The book catalogues and analyzes the crimes of Communism over 70 years. Editor(s): Kramer, Mark. Translator(s): Murphy, Jonathan. Num Pages: 912 pages, 78 halftones, 6 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JPFC; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 174 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1384.
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, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
912
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
1384g
Number of Pages
912
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674076082
SKU
V9780674076082
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Stephane Courtois
Stephane Courtois is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and editor of the journal Communisme. Nicolas Werth is a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History. Jean-Louis Panne collaborated on the Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier francais. Andrzej Paczkowski is Deputy Director and a professor at the Institute for Political Studies of ... Read more

Reviews for The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
An 800-page compendium of the crimes of Communist regimes worldwide, recorded and analyzed in ghastly detail by a team of scholars. The facts and figures, some of them well known, others newly confirmed in hitherto inaccessible archives, are irrefutable. The myth of the well-intentioned founders
the good czar Lenin betrayed by his evil heirs
has been laid to rest for good. No ... Read more

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