The black book of communism : crimes, terror, repression / Stéphane Courtois ... [et al.] ; transla...
The black book of communism : crimes, terror, repression / Stéphane Courtois ... [et al.] ; transla...
The black book of communism : crimes, terror, repression / Stéphane Courtois ... [et al.] ; translated by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer ; consulting editor, Mark Kramer.
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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1999.
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N320.532/21
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xx, 858 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
Foreword: The Uses of Atrocity / Martin Malia -- Introduction: The Crimes of Communism / Stephane Courtois -- Pt. I. A State against Its People: Violence, Repression, and Terror in the Soviet Union / Nicolas Werth. 1. Paradoxes and Misunderstandings Surrounding the October Revolution. 2. The Iron Fi...
17. The Shadow of the NKVD in Spain / Stephane Courtois and Jean-Louis Panne. 18. Communism and Terrorism / Remi Kauffer -- Pt. III. The Other Europe: Victim of Communism / Andrzej Paczkowski and Karel Bartosek. 19. Poland, the "Enemy Nation" / Andrzej Paczkowski. 20. Central and Southeastern Europe...
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
1999.
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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,...
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The black book of communism : crimes, terror, repression / Stéphane Courtois ... [et al.] ; translated by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer ; consulting editor, Mark Kramer.
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"Select bibliography for Asia"--642-644.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 759-821) and index.
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N320.532/21
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0674076087 (alk. paper)
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320.532
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