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The Black Book of Communism

Summary

The Black Book of Communism (1997), edited by Stéphane Courtois and colleagues, is a comprehensive scholarly account of the crimes of communist regimes worldwide, estimating approximately 100 million deaths attributable to communist regimes.

Core Contribution

Most comprehensive scholarly account of communist mass murder; the ~100 million deaths figure became the standard anti-communist reference.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • communism
  • mass murder
  • Soviet history
  • anti-communism

Historical Influences

Anti-communist historiography

Intellectual Lineage

Anti-communist historiography French academic tradition

Allied Works

The Gulag Archipelago

Contemporaries & Peers

The Gulag Archipelago

Minds Influenced

Anti-communist discoursehistorical memory of communism

Intellectual Posterity

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