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The Black Book of Communism
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| Editor | Stéphane Courtois |
|---|---|
| Authors | (*German edition) |
| Original title | Le Livre noir du communisme |
| Language | French |
| Subjects | |
| Publisher | Éditions Robert Laffont |
Publication date | 6 November 1997 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 8 October 1999 Harvard University Press |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 912 |
| ISBN | 978-0-674-07608-2 |
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression is a 1997[note 1] book by Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Margolin, and several other European academics[note 2] documenting a history of political repression by communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, and deaths in labor camps and allegedly artificially created famines. The book was originally published in France as Le Livre noir du communisme: Crimes, terreur, répression by Éditions Robert Laffont. In the United States, it was published by Harvard University Press,[1]: 217 with a foreword by Martin Malia. The German edition, published by Piper Verlag, includes a chapter written by Joachim Gauck. The introduction was written by Courtois. Historian François Furet was originally slated to write the introduction, but he died before being able to do so.[2]: 51
The Black Book of Communism has been translated into numerous languages, has sold millions of copies, and is considered one of the most influential and controversial books written about the history of communism in the 20th century,[3]: 217 in particular the history of the Soviet Union and other state socialist regimes.[4] The work was praised by a broad range of popular-press publications and historians, while academic press and specialist reviews were more critical or mixed for some historical inaccuracies. The introduction by Courtois was especially criticized, including by three of the book's main contributors, for comparing communism to Nazism and giving a definitive number of "victims of communism", which critics have described as inflated. Werth's chapter, however, stood out as a positive.[5][6] The book's title was chosen to echo The Black Book of Soviet Jewry, a documentary record of Nazi atrocities in the Eastern Front, written by Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman for the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during World War II.[7]: xiii
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The Black Book of Communism AF Kommunizmin qara kitabı AZ Чорная кніга камунізму BE Черната книга на комунизма Bulgarian El llibre negre del comunisme Catalan Černá kniha komunismu Czech Kommunismens sorte bog Danish Das Schwarzbuch des Kommunismus German Η Μαύρη Βίβλος του Κομμουνισμού (βιβλίο) Greek La nigra libro de la komunismo EO
