| Description |
xx, 858 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
"Select bibliography for Asia"--642-644. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 759-821) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword : The uses of atrocity / Martin Malia -- Introduction : The crimes of communism / Stéphane Courtois -- pt. 1. A state against its people : violence, repression, and terror in the Soviet Union / Nicholas Werth. 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 -- pt. 2. Word revolution, civil war, and terror / Stéphane Courtois, Jean-Louis Panné, and Réne Kauffer. The Comintern in action / Stéphane Courtois and Jean-Louis Panné ; The shadow of the NKVD in Spain / Stéphane Courtois and Jean-Louis Panné ; Communism and terrorism / Rémi Kauffer -- |
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pt. 3. The other Europe : victim of communism / Andrzej Paczkowski and Karol Bartošek. Poland, the "enemy nation" / Andrzej Paczkowski ; Central and Southeastern Europe / Karel Bartošek -- pt. 4. Communism in Asia : between reeducation and massacre / Jean-Louis Margolin and Pierre Rigoulot. Introduction ; China : a long march into night / Jean-Louis Margolin ; Crimes, terror, and secrecy in North Korea / Pierre Rigoulot ; Vietnam and Laos : the impasse of war communism ; Cambodia : the country of disconcerting crimes / Jean-Louis Margolin ; Conclusion ; Select bibliography for Asia -- pt. 5. The Third World / Pascal Fontaine, Yves Santamaria, and Sylvain Boulouque. Communism in Latin America / Pascal Fontaine ; Afrocommunism : Ethiopia, Angola, and Mozambique / Yves Santamaria -- Communism in Afghanistan / Sylvain Boulouque ; Conclusion / Stéphane Courtois. |
| Subject |
Communism -- History -- 20th century.
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Political persecution.
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Terrorism.
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| Added Author |
Courtois, Stéphane, 1947-
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Kramer, Mark.
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| ISBN |
0674076087 alkaline paper |
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