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Hell On Earth:
Brutality and Violence Under The
Stalinist Regime, by Ludwik
Kowalski
The author's father, a civil engineer,
left Poland for the Soviet Union in 1931.
An idealistic communist, he believed it
was his duty to emigrate, and to
contribute to the building of a new
society. His wife and his infant son
followed soon after. In 1938 he was
arrested and sent to a GULAG camp in
Kolyma, where he became a slave in
Stalin's state of proletarian
dictatorship. Two years later he died,
most likely from exhaustion, working in a
gold mine.
In this book The author, who is a
retired physics professor (Professor
Emeritus at Montclair State University,
New Jersey), shares what he knows and
thinks about Stalinism. Educated in the
Soviet Union (elementary school), in
Poland (high school and master's degree)
and in France (Ph.D. in nuclear physics),
he came to the United States in 1964. He
deliberately avoided talking about
Stalinism and concentrated on professional
activities--teaching and research.
Approaching retirement, however, he
wrote an essay on Stalinism entitled
"Alaska Notes." It describes the gruesome
Soviet reality, focusing on Kolyma, and on
Stalin's inner circle. The essay contained
comments on what has been published by
some survivors of Stalinism, and by
authors of several scholarly books, such
as Leszek Kolakowski. "Alaska Notes" was
posted on the Internet discussion list at
Montclair State University.
This public forum revealed a wide range
of opinions about communism. The animated
discussion, mostly among professors,
convinced the author to transform the
essay into this book. It is dedicated to
all victims of Stalinism, and in
particular to the author's father, a naive
idealist deceived by propaganda. Royalties
will be donated to a Montclair State
University scholarship fund.
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The Black
Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror,
Repression
The legacy of
Communism - its death toll:
- 25 million
in the former Soviet
Union;
- 65 million
in China;
- 1.7
million in Cambodia, and
more.
Already 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. The authors,
all distinguished scholars based in
Europe, document Communist crimes against
humanity. An extraordinary accounting,
this book amply documents the unparalleled
position and significance of Communism in
the hierarchy of violence that is the
history.
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The Sword
and the Shield
When news leaked in 1996 that a KGB
officer had defected with the names of
hundreds of undercover agents, a
spokesperson for the SVR (Russia's foreign
intelligence service, heir of the KGB)
said, "Hundreds of people! That just
doesn't happen! Any defector could get the
name of one, two, perhaps three
agents--but not hundreds!" He was wrong: a
secret dissident working in the KGB
archive stole copies of its most highly
classified files every day for over a
decade. In 1992, he defected with his
entire collection--and now it's been
published for all the world to read.
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The Origins
of Totalitarianism
This is Arendt's classic study of
totalitarianism. If you are interested in
learning about antisemitism and
imperialism then this is the book for you.
Hannah Arendt shows the incredibly
destructive nature of all that makes one
human under a totalitarian rule.
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Hitler: A
Study in Tyranny
Bullock describes with chilling
specificity how through adroit
manipulation of popular discontent, the
control of information, and the politics
of terror, a madman and a monster inspired
Germany to perpetrate the defining horror
of this century.
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