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The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression 105 reviews
Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, ...
Harvard University Press, 1999
Review of Reviews
+ Could not be more spot on.
+ The Black Book of Communism
I read this book some time ago and it engaged me big time, so I was surprised to see the number of negative reviews here. I read each of them carefully to see what those reviewers didn't like. Several of them mention the evils of Capitalism and how many deaths capitalists are responsible for. ...
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Gulag: A History 72 reviews
Anne Applebaum
Anchor, 2004
Like science fiction--portrays a strange yet familiar world.
+ Could I have some coffee please?
+ An Unparalleled Look at Life and Death in Stalin's Death Camps!
+ The big and the small prison zone
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The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956105 reviews
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002
The nail in the coffin of the Soviet State
+ The single greatest literary work of the twentieth century.
+ A STYLISTIC ACHIEVEMENT ALSO
+ Well worth reading
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Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First 179 reviews
Mona Charen
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2003
great book for smart people, useless for trying to win over idiots
+ Required reading for high school and college political science classes
+ Spreading
This is a book that puts together all the silliness of the Left. Especially enraging is how they 'blame America first' for all the troubles in the world. Most of the 'Useful Idiots' (a term Vladimir Lenin gave a hundred year ago for the same type of people!) portrayed in this book, Rich, Famous and ...
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The Great Terror: A Reassessment28 reviews
Robert Conquest
Oxford University Press, USA, 1991
Socialism is hell
+ History as warning
+ Totalitarianism is hell
+ A classic
+ A Very Thorough Look at Stalin's Terror
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The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine30 reviews
Robert Conquest
Oxford University Press, USA, 1987
What Conquest's power is over the unknowing.
+ The Horrors of the Soviet State.
+ One of the more important conservative books of our time
+ Incentives matter
+ Informative, but a bit too academic
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Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime15 reviews
Richard Pipes
Vintage, 1995
A Book No Historian Can Be Without
+ Nice continuation from previous books
+ Almost flawless.
This is definitely one book that sheds light on the early years of Lenin's regime. This book covers many different aspects of the early regime, from the trials of the civil war to the regime's early attempts to spread communism across the western world. Other aspects included the early education ...
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Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)70 reviews
Richard Pipes
Modern Library, 2003
History for the history impaired
+ Communism: A History (Review)
+ Communism: A History by R. Pipes - Book review
+ An Exceptional Introduction
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Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society 8 reviews
Transaction Publishers, 1997
Take me by the hand and let's go strolling in wonderland
+ Reality versus Romaticism
+ Wrong side of history as usually for the intellectuals
+ As pertinent today as it was 25 years ago...
+ Peace, peace, when there is no peace.
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Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-19416 reviews
Robert C. Tucker
W. W. Norton & Company, 1992
The finest treatment of its subject
+ Required Reading
+ A great book on a bad man
+ Please write volume 3!
+ Comprehensive, accessible, and supremely coherent
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Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust19 reviews
Miron Dolot
W. W. Norton & Company, 1987
Heart-rending
+ First Hand Account
+ A Personal Account of a Nationwide Murder
+ the holocaust that Hollywood will never acknowledge
+ A close-up of a tragic time in history
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In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage29 reviews
John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr
Encounter Books, 2005
In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage
+ Communism is not dead, it just moved uptown
+ Truth seeps into academic circles at last
+ Long Awaited Critique Of The Leftist Propaganda Machine
+ Extremely Important Account of Liberal Historical Bias
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Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust19 reviews
Miron Dolot
W. W. Norton & Company, 1987
Heart-rending
+ First Hand Account
+ A Personal Account of a Nationwide Murder
+ the holocaust that Hollywood will never acknowledge
+ A close-up of a tragic time in history
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Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime15 reviews
Richard Pipes
Vintage, 1995
A Book No Historian Can Be Without
+ Nice continuation from previous books
+ Almost flawless.
This is definitely one book that sheds light on the early years of Lenin's regime. This book covers many different aspects of the early regime, from the trials of the civil war to the regime's early attempts to spread communism across the western world. Other aspects included the early education ...
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The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956105 reviews
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002
The nail in the coffin of the Soviet State
+ The single greatest literary work of the twentieth century.
+ A STYLISTIC ACHIEVEMENT ALSO
+ Well worth reading
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Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-19416 reviews
Robert C. Tucker
W. W. Norton & Company, 1992
The finest treatment of its subject
+ Required Reading
+ A great book on a bad man
+ Please write volume 3!
+ Comprehensive, accessible, and supremely coherent
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In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage29 reviews
John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr
Encounter Books, 2005
In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage
+ Communism is not dead, it just moved uptown
+ Truth seeps into academic circles at last
+ Long Awaited Critique Of The Leftist Propaganda Machine
+ Extremely Important Account of Liberal Historical Bias
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The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression105 reviews
Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, ...
Harvard University Press, 1999
Review of Reviews
+ Could not be more spot on.
+ The Black Book of Communism
I read this book some time ago and it engaged me big time, so I was surprised to see the number of negative reviews here. I read each of them carefully to see what those reviewers didn't like. Several of them mention the evils of Capitalism and how many deaths capitalists are responsible for. ...
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Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society8 reviews
Transaction Publishers, 1997
Take me by the hand and let's go strolling in wonderland
+ Reality versus Romaticism
+ Wrong side of history as usually for the intellectuals
+ As pertinent today as it was 25 years ago...
+ Peace, peace, when there is no peace.
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Gulag: A History72 reviews
Anne Applebaum
Anchor, 2004
Like science fiction--portrays a strange yet familiar world.
+ Could I have some coffee please?
+ An Unparalleled Look at Life and Death in Stalin's Death Camps!
+ The big and the small prison zone
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