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, 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 widescale devastation visited on Chinese culture by Mao's Red Guards.
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. An extraordinary accounting, this book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the history of the twentieth century.

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression

Business & Money

Jean-Louis Panné

Andrzej Paczkowski

Karel Bartosek

Jean-Louis Margolin

Nicolas Werth

STÉPHANE COURTOIS

Economics

Harvard University Press

El libro negro del comunismo

El libro negro del comunismo: crímenes, terror y represión (1997) es un libro escrito por profesores universitarios y experimentados investigadores europeos y editado por Stéphane Courtois, director de investigaciones del Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), la mayor y más prestigiosa organización pública de investigación de Francia. Su propósito es catalogar diversos actos criminales (asesinatos, tortura, deportaciones, etc.) que el libro argumenta son el resultado de la búsqueda e implementación del comunismo (en el contexto del libro, se refiere fundamentalmente a las acciones de estados comunistas).

El Libro Negro del Comunismo

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

EDITORIAL PLANETA, S.A.

IL LIBRO NERO DEL COMUNISMO Crimini, terrore, repressione

Nicholas Werth

Jean-Louis Panni

Mondadori

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