Back The Black Book of Communism Afrikaans Kommunizmin qara kitabı Azerbaijani Чорная кніга камунізму Byelorussian 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 Esperanto

The Black Book of Communism

The Black Book of Communism
Cover of the English edition
EditorStéphane Courtois
Authors
(*German edition)
Original titleLe Livre noir du communisme
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Subjects
PublisherÉditions Robert Laffont
Publication date
6 November 1997
Published in English
8 October 1999
Harvard University Press
Media typePrint
Pages912
ISBN978-0-674-07608-2

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 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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