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Tables of Contents for The Black Book of Communism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword: The Uses of Atrocity
ix
Martin Malia
Introduction: The Crimes of Communism
1
32
Stephane Courtois
Part I A State against Its People: Violence, Repression, and Terror in the Soviet Union
33
236
Nicolas Werth
Paradoxes and Misunderstandings Surrounding the October Revolution
39
14
The Iron Fist of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
53
18
The Red Terror
71
10
The Dirty War
81
27
From Tambov to the Great Famine
108
24
From the Truce to the Great Turning Point
132
14
Forced Collectivization and Dekulakization
146
13
The Great Famine
159
10
Socially Foreign Elements and the Cycles of Repression
169
15
The Great Terror (1936--1938)
184
19
The Empire of the Camps
203
13
The Other Side of Victory
216
16
Apogee and Crisis in the Gulag System
232
10
The Last Conspiracy
242
8
The Exit from Stalinism
250
19
Conclusion
261
8
Part II Word Revolution, Civil War, and Terror
269
92
Stephane Courtois
Jean-Louis Panne
Remi Kauffer
The Comintern in Action
271
62
Stephane Courtois
Jean-Louis Panne
The Shadow of the NKVD in Spain
333
20
Stephane Courtois
Jean-Louis Panne
Communism and Terrorism
353
8
Remi Kauffer
Part III The Other Europe: Victim of Communism
361
96
Andrzej Paczkowski
Karel Bartosek
Poland, the ``Enemy Nation''
363
31
Andrzej Paczkowski
Central and Southeastern Europe
394
63
Karel Bartosek
Part IV Communism in Asia: Between Reeducation and Massacre
457
188
Jean-Louis Margolin
Pierre Rigoulot
Introduction
459
4
China: A Long March into Night
463
84
Jean-Louis Margolin
Crimes, Terror, and Secrecy in North Korea
547
18
Pierre Rigoulot
Vietnam and Laos: The Impasse of War Communism
565
12
Jean-Louis Margolin
Cambodia: The Country of Disconcerting Crimes
577
68
Jean-Louis Margolin
Conclusion
636
6
Select Bibliography for Asia
642
3
Part V The Third World
645
114
Pascal Fontaine
Yves Santamaria
Sylvain Boulouque
Communism in Latin America
647
36
Pascal Fontaine
Afrocommunism: Ethiopia, Angola, and Mozambique
683
22
Yves Santamaria
Communism in Afghanistan
705
54
Sylvain Boulouque
Conclusion: Why?
727
32
Stephane Courtois
Notes
759
64
Index
823
34
About the Authors
857