{"product_id":"the-black-book-of-communism-stphane-courtois-9780674076082","title":"The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlready 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panné\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674076087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674076082\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.46h x 6.68w x 1.97d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/23\/1999 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/1999 pg. 1366\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/1999 pg. 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/1999 pg. 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLJ Best Books of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2000 pg. 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/02\/2000 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2000 pg. 113\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/1999 pg. 191\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2000","brand":"Stéphane Courtois","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44044300484863,"sku":"9780674076082","price":71.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7e1c8afc-21f8-4abe-a37c-208d8a204c0d.jpg?v=1684972050","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-black-book-of-communism-stphane-courtois-9780674076082","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}