The Black Book of Communism

A bestseller throughout Europe, this book reveals the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, it is the first comprehensive attempt to catalog and analyze the crimes of Communism in over seventy years. Revolutions, like trees, must be judged by their fruit; Ignazio Silone wrote that. This is the standard that this book applies to the Communist experience―in China under Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung in Korea; in Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh and Cuba under Fidel Castro; in Ethiopia under Mengistu Haile Mariam; in Angola with Neto or Afghanistan under Najibullah.