- Kommunismus, Verfolgung, Politische Verfolgung, Verbrechen
""Revolutions, like trees, must be judged by their fruit," Ignazio Silone wrote, and this is the standard the authors apply to the Communist experience - in the China of "the Great Helmsman," Kim Il Sung's Korea, Vietnam under "Uncle Ho" and Cuba under Castro, Ethiopia under Mengistu, Angola under Neto, and Afghanistan under Najibullah.
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- Author
- Stéphane Courtois
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 950
- Publisher
- Piper, Mondadori, Harvard University Press
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- German, vie, Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9788823903487
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