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""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 wide-scale devastation visited on Chinese culture by Mao's Red Guards."--BOOK JACKET.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Terrorism, Communism, History, Political persecution, Marxism & Communism, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, World history: from c 1900 -, Politics / Current Events, Modern - 20th Century, Political Repression, Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism, History: World, 20th century, Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism, History / Modern / 20th Century, Communism, history, Communism--history, Communism--history--20th century, Hx44 .l59 1999, 000098748, 320.53/2Times
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