Communist Genocide
Top 10 Communist Genocide
: The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag, Kolyma Tales, Red Scarf Girl, Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism, Darkness at Noon, When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
| Author | Orlando Figes |
| ISBN | 0805074619 |
From the award-winning author of A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance, a landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression
There have been many accounts of the public aspects of Stalin's dictatorship: the arrests and trials, the enslavement...
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
It is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider the Russian Revolution to be the most significant...
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
| Author | Jasper Becker |
| ISBN | 0805056688 |
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a grain shortage brought on not by flood, drought, or infestation, but by the insanely irresponsible dictates of Chairman Mao Ze-dong's "Great Leap Forward,"...
| Author | Jan Tomasz Gross |
| ISBN | 0691130833 |
During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many of the victims were sent to labor camps, but ten thousand of them were dumped in a remote wasteland and left to...
| Author | Varlam Shalamov |
| ISBN | 0140186956 |
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes...
| Author | Ji-li Jiang |
| ISBN | 0439063000 |
Moving, honest, and deeply personal, Red Scarf Girl is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century.
It's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a girl could want: brains, popularity, and...
Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
| Author | Joshua Muravchik |
| ISBN | 1893554457 |
Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in 'science'. Indeed, no religion ever spread so far so fast. Yet while socialism had established itself as a fact of life by the beginning of the 20th century, it did not create societies of abundance...
| Author | Arthur Koestler |
| ISBN | 0553265954 |
Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government...
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
| Author | Chanrithy Him |
| ISBN | 0393322106 |
In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps,...
| Author | David Mamet |
| ISBN | 1595230769 |
David Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics.
In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-called mainstream media outlets he relied on were irredeemably biased, peddling a hypocritical and deeply flawed...
| Author | George Orwell |
| ISBN | 0156421178 |
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics...
| Author | Tim Tzouliadis |
| ISBN | 1594201684 |
A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends
In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers,...
| Author | Richard Wurmbrand |
| ISBN | 0340863684 |
One Man Who Dared to Stand Up
Months of solitary confinement, years of periodic physical torture, constant suffering from hunger and cold, the anguish of brainwashing and mental cruelty--these are the experiences of a Romanian pastor during his 14 years in Communist prisons.
His...
| Author | Friedrich A. Hayek |
| ISBN | 0226320618 |
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the...
| Author | Robert Conquest |
| ISBN | 0195051807 |
The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and...
| Author | Pin Yathay |
| ISBN | 0801486998 |
On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh to open a new and appalling chapter in the story of the twentieth century. On that day, Pin Yathay was a qualified engineer in the Ministry of Public Works. Successful and highly educated, he had been critical of the corrupt Lon Nol regime and hoped that...
| Author | Alexander Dolgun |
| ISBN | 0394494970 |
Alexander Dolgun, from embassy employee, to prisoner, then falsely convicted of being a terrorist against Russia and sentenced to hard labor. Released after eight long years he is finally able to recount the experience of being transported to and between prisons, interactions and friendships with...
The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume Two: Hegel and Marx
| Author | Karl Popper |
| ISBN | 0415278422 |
Written in political exile in New Zealand during the World War II and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Poppers The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a vigorous and profound defence of democracy. Its now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx...
Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
| Author | Frank Dikötter |
| ISBN | 0747595089 |
Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives....
| Author | David King |
| ISBN | 0805052941 |
The Commissar Vanishes offers a chilling look at how one man - Joseph Stalin - manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and to erase memories off his victims. On Stalin's orders, purged rivals were airbrushed from group portraits, and crowd scenes were altered to depict...
| Author | Richard Wurmbrand |
| ISBN | 0891073795 |
The late Reverend Richard Wurmbrand spent 14 years as a prisoner of the Communist government in Romania , where he was persecuted for his faith in Jesus Christ. His experience led him to spend further years researching Karl Marx and the Communist doctrines he developed. While Communism portrays itself...
| Author | Heather Morris |
| ISBN | 1250265703 |
In this follow-up to The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the author tells the story, based on a true one, of a woman who survives Auschwitz, only to find herself locked away again. Cilka Klein is 18 years old when Auschwitz-Birkenau is liberated by Soviet soldiers. But Cilka is one of the many women who is sentenced...
