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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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