Livre Noir du Communisme: Crimes, Terreur, Rï¿½pression

Name: Livre Noir du Communisme: Crimes, Terreur, Rï¿½pression
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ISBN: 9780674076082

ISBN-10: 0674076087

ISBN-13: 9780674076082

Edition: 1999

Authors: Stï¿½phane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Pannï¿½, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek

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This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.

Book details

List price: $71.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 912
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.25" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 3.432
Language: English

Nicolas Werth is a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History.

Jean-Louis Pannï¿½ collaborated on the Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier franï¿½ais.

Andrzej Paczkowski is Deputy Director and a professor at the Institute for Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.



Foreword: The Uses of Atrocity



Introduction: The Crimes of Communism




A State against Its People: Violence, Repression, and Terror in the Soviet Union




Paradoxes and Misunderstandings Surrounding the October Revolution



The Iron Fist of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat



The Red Terror



The Dirty War



From Tambov to the Great Famine



From the Truce to the Great Turning Point



Forced Collectivization and Dekulakization



The Great Famine



Socially Foreign Elements and the Cycles of Repression



The Great Terror (1936-1938)



The Empire of the Camps



The Other Side of Victory



Apogee and Crisis in the Gulag System



The Last Conspiracy



The Exit from Stalinism


Conclusion



Word Revolution, Civil War, and Terror




The Comintern in Action




The Shadow of the NKVD in Spain




Communism and Terrorism




The Other Europe: Victim of Communism




Poland, the "Enemy Nation"




Central and Southeastern Europe




Communism in Asia: Between Reeducation and Massacre



Introduction



China: A Long March into Night




Crimes, Terror, and Secrecy in North Korea




Vietnam and Laos: The Impasse of War Communism




Cambodia: The Country of Disconcerting Crimes



Conclusion


Select Bibliography for Asia



The Third World




Communism in Latin America




Afrocommunism: Ethiopia, Angola, and Mozambique




Communism in Afghanistan



Conclusion: Why?



Notes


Index


About the Authors