{"product_id":"the-black-book-of-communism-crimes-terror-repression-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.  \"Revolutions  like trees  must be judged by their fruit \" Ignazio Silone wrote  and this is the standard the authors apply to the Communist experiencein the China of \"the Great Helmsman \" Kim Il Sungs 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 Stalins destruction of hundreds of churches in Moscow to Ceausescus leveling of the historic heart of Bucharest to the widescale devastation visited on Chinese culture by Maos Red Guards.  As the death toll mountsas many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union  65 million in China  1.7 million in Cambodia  and on and onthe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279499911221,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674076087","price":55.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674076082.jpg?v=1780600752","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-black-book-of-communism-crimes-terror-repression-9780674076082","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}