The Black book of communism
Subtitle: crimes, terror, repression
By: Stéphane Courtois ... [et al.] ; translated by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer.
Contributors: Courtois, Stéphane.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 858
Subjects: Communism -- History -- 20th century.; Political persecution.; Terrorism.
Work titles: Livre noir du communisme. English.
Description: ""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."--BOOK JACKET.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.