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Article: Le Livre Noir du Communisme: Crimes, terreur, repression.
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- The World and I
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- September 1, 1998
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LE LIVRE NOIR DU COMMUNISME Crimes, terreur, repression Stephane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panne, Andrzei Paczkowski, Karol Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin Paris: Robert Laffont, 1997 846 pp.
Six French Intellectuals -- all leftists -- face the record of communism squarely and deliver a solid, damaging indictment.
Le livre noir du communisme poses a question that is fundamental to the cynical understanding of political morality in our time. The query is simple and, at first glance, puzzling: Why has there been no reckoning for communist crimes against humanity? These crimes have continued unchecked, even justified for many in the West, during ...