John omicinski, the scottsdale tribune i cant think of any book that would be more important for americans to read. Crimes, terror, repression jeanlouis panne, andrzej paczkowski, karel bartosek, jeanlouis margolin, nicolas werth, stephane courtois, mark kramer, jonathan murphy, mark kramer on. I would like to say that i am in support of trotskyites, stalinists, anarchists and any other leftist group. Because americans are a highly individualist group of people. Up next capitalism, socialism, and communism compared duration. If you are going to read only one book this year, make it the black book of communism. Yet austere though this inventory is, its cumulative impact is overwhelming. While the john birch society has long exposed the international communist dynamic as a criminal and political conspiracy, the black book of communism does a great job of documenting that communist conspiracys overall crimes against mankind from their own records in. Maos great leap forward needed only two years to destroy tens of millions of peasants. 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.
After learning about canadas ridiculous monument to the victims of communism and finding out that theres a similar monument in my own city, i looked at the. It is not enough to tell about whole image of communism, with its cultural oppression. The black book of communism, written by stephane courtois has been called into question on multiple different grounds. Why doesnt the black book of communism include the almost. Either way, these two wikiarticles must be harmonized. Crimes, terror, repression is a 1997 book by stephane courtois, nicolas werth, andrzej paczkowski and several other european academics documenting a history of political repressions by communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, killing populations in labor camps and artificially created famines. The black book is an elegantly simple and valuable record of a time many would like to forgetbut will have to deal with. This number is accumulated from more than 10 different nations and various movements around the world. The black book of communism crimes, terror, repression. The black book of communism has all the hallmarks of such a shift of allegiances.
Us govt and media whitewash nazi holocaust citing debunked. The same procedure has been used on the le livre noir du capitalisme page. Communists were not driven by a desire to eliminate any one race or religion, which has generally defined the term genocide black book of communism p. Hardly taken out of the clear blue sky, said paul a. Black book puts to rest the odious fiction that has softened communism s image for so long. The figure of 100 million victims of communism first emerged in the late 1990s from the black book of communism. Anti communism was a major factor in the insertion of socialdemocratic movements into that established order, and provided a powerful ideological basis of agreement between socialdemocratic leaders and their conservative opponents.
Featured audio all audio latest this just in grateful dead netlabels old time radio 78 rpms and cylinder recordings. Crimes, terror, repression is a 1997 book by stephane courtois, nicolas werth, andrzej paczkowski and several other. Overall, somehow or another, the black book of communism has managed to raise the debate one notch. It is a measure of the success of the class struggle that the reactionary intelligentsia felt compelled to write an 854 page book touching on the death toll of communism. The black book of communism gives a balance sheet of our present knowledge of communism s human costs, archivally based where possible, and otherwise drawing on the best secondary works, and with due allowance for the difficulties of quantification. The black book of communism the barbaric gentleman. I can understand the opnion of micah6vs8, the book is a collection of facts with documentary base. This subject has come up again with the public statements by frank dikotter and jasper becker where he claims researched archives and determined x amount of people were killed by maos famine. The black book of communism is a collection of rightwing essays published in france in 1997, and subsequently translated into english and published by harvard university press in 1999. The 100 million number is based on archival documents. So what is our authors rationale for throwing away their old convictions. Condemn communists cruelties, but capitalism has its own terrible. The first printing sold out in a matter of weeks, and the. Black book of communism kindle edition by tinny, ian, barnetti, micky, crypto, matt, curry, rex.
Near the end of his life francois furet 19271997, one of the best historians of the french revolution, turned his formidable intellect to the study. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Top russian lawmaker denies communist regimes killed 100. 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. Buy the black book of communism crimes, terror, repression book online at best prices in india on.
Solzhenitsyn said, the black book of communism, the authoritative reference source for the deadly statistics of communism, conservatively estimates that soviet communism lead to the deaths of 20 million human beings. Besides which, the editor preferred the title, the black book of capitalism. It will illustrate the books even better than the images. He expected it would have a greater impact and would get more attention due to its contrast with the black book of communism, published by a group of french authors, which was translated into various languages. Why doesnt the black book of communism include the almost 6 million nazis killed by communism. Peasants often resisted communism more fervently than any group. Communist nations have become a kind of ideological charnel house, murdering over 100 million of their own people, according to the black book of communism, whose author, stephane courtois, is. Us govt and media whitewash nazi holocaust citing debunked black book of communism the trump white house and corporate media are whitewashing the nazi holocaust by citing the bogus debunked black book of communism to tout marxism as historys worst crime. The contributors to the book include some of the finest scholars from both east and west, who have drawn extensively on new archival findings. The black book of communism was originally published in france on november 8, 1997, the eightieth anniversary of the russian revolution.
A top russian lawmaker calls the commemoration in the united states of a national day for the victims of communism propaganda and dismisses the figure of 100 million victims of communist regimes as a number pulled out of a hat. Interview on the black book of capitalism robert kurz. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading black book of communism. Its the the most factually incorrect book of the 20th century and its controvertial because its proaganda at its finest. Autoplay when autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Essentially a body count of communism s victims in the 20th century, the book draws heavily from recently opened soviet archives. Rightwingers point out the horrors of stalinism, yet forget the human misery their favoured economic model was built on, says guardian. The black book of communism, while some of its claims have been disputed is nevertheless the source of material for any anti communist, and should be mandatory reading for anybody to. A top russian lawmaker calls the commemoration in the united states of a national day for the victims of communism propaganda and. But the authors of the black book of communism do what none of the other authors had done before. Crimes, terror, repression jeanlouis panne, andrzej paczkowski, karel bartosek, jeanlouis margolin, nicolas werth.
Crimes, terror, repression, the product of a joint research by eight academics from different european countries who documented the death toll of communist regimes. Former national security adviser john bolton on thursday tore into chinas atrocious handling of the coronavirus crisis and called for a black book similar to the black book of. Okay im doing my single most requested video of all time. The fraudulent death tolls contained in the book are the single most quoted anti communist source in the world. In fact, that estimate is based on thorough research and archival documents. Already famous throughout europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former soviet bloc to reveal the actual. It includes two of some of the most populated nations on earth china and the soviet union.
Some critics have objected to the book s depiction of communism and nazism as being similar, others have criticized the approach the book takes to assigning blame of deaths, and still others, most notably j. What exactly was the black book of communism and why is it so controversial. Stephane courtois, nicolas werth, jeanlouis panne, andrzej paczkowski, karel. Courtois claims that communist regimes are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement, including nazism. The trump white house and corporate media are whitewashing the nazi holocaust by citing this bogus. Dealing with the absolute lie that is mao killed tens of millions with a famine. Full text of the black book of communism internet archive. The black book of communism, one of the largest most blatant distortions of history. Most startling is that this video in support of karl marx has seen a resurgence in no small part, due to bernie voters. In late 1997 a leading french publishing house, robert laffont, published le livre noir du communisme the black book of communism, an 850page book of scholarly essays that collectively provide a history of communism in the 20th century. I am personally a maoist who likes to share my interest in communism and socialism. Those believing in this concept still tend to explain away the millions killed by communist regimes by claiming true communism has never been tried.
The black book of communism alleges that communism killed 94 million people during the 20th century. All combined, communist regimes during the 20th century were responsible for approximately 100 million deaths and enslaved entire nations in russia, vietnam, china, eastern europe, north korea, cuba and much of central asia. The book not only bashes socialism and makes it out to be worse than fascism, it outright tries to portray fascism as a good thing. Debunking the myth of karl marx and socialism as an economic system.
The statistic was made using loose qualifications, such as millions of nonexistent chinese babies being considered victims, relinquished households probably being. The claim usually comes in part from a shitpiece called the black book of communism, a work of sensationalist and apparently profascist tripe originally slapped together by professing leftists to promote the status quo. This is an assembly of extensive articles published in france two years ago and now. To put this in perspective, 20 million is roughly the entire current population of the state of new york. Crimes, terror, repression by stephane courtois and five other writers, translated from the french 1999, 850 pages.