According to Courtois, "e must make a distinction between the doctrine of communism and its practice. Communism predated fascism and Nazism, outlived both, and left its mark on four continents." : 2 Courtois goes on to explain what is meant by the term Communism in the book. : 2 Courtois says that "Communism, the defining characteristic of the ' short twentieth century' that began in Sarajevo in 1914 and ended in Moscow in 1991, finds itself at center states in the story.
: xv Courtois writes that "Communist regimes turned mass crime into a full-blown system of government" and are responsible for a greater number of deaths than Nazism or any other political system. The introduction, written by Courtois, was the main source of controversy, and was acknowledged by Martin Malia in his foreword. : 2 Introduction: "The Crimes of Communism" The authors use the term communism to mean Leninist and Marxist–Leninist communism, : ix–x i.e., the actually existing communist regimes and " real socialism" of the 20th century they distinguish it from small-c communism, which has existed for millennia, while capital-c Communism began in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, which Stéphane Courtois describes as a coup.
The book's title was chosen to echo The Black Book of Soviet Jewry, a documentary record of Nazi atrocities in the Eastern Front, written by Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman for the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during World War II. The work was praised by a broad range of popular-press publications and historians, while academic press and specialist reviews were more critical or mixed for some historical inaccuracies, and Werth's chapter stood out as a positive the introduction by Courtois was especially criticized, including by three of the main contributors, both for comparing communism to Nazism and inflating the numbers of victims, as well as manipulation of numbers and coming to an overall count of victims. The Black Book of Communism has been translated into numerous languages, sold millions of copies, and is considered one of the most influential and controversial books written about the history of communism in the 20th century, : 217 in particular the history of the Soviet Union and other state socialist regimes. Historian François Furet was originally slated to write the introduction, but he died before being able to do so. The introduction was written by Courtois. The German edition, published by Piper Verlag, includes a chapter written by Joachim Gauck. In the United States, it was published by Harvard University Press, : 217 with a foreword by Martin Malia. The book was originally published in France as Le Livre noir du communisme: Crimes, terreur, répression by Éditions Robert Laffont. As James Wolfensohn the former CEO of World Bank said, "The West will go from 80% of the world's wealth down to 35%." You don't get credit for good deeds or restraint during Old World Order hegemony.The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression is a 1997 book by Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Margolin, and several other European academics documenting a history of political repression by communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, and deaths in labor camps and artificially created famines. Remember, practically every location on earth gets a turn in this barrel. Of course, after learning the Roma "Gypsies" of former Communist Bulgaria were forced to make fine leather suitcases for export, along with alcohol and cigarettes, it seems to me that Communism might be related to Capitalism, the other side of it, so to speak well, the unbridled Capitalism that I'm familiar with, anyway. Indeed, the power of Communism lies behind its humanitarian and environmental efforts, while its agents monitor and censor our speech, often whipping the ill-informed up into a frenzy, trying to provoke an aggressive response, no doubt. This incredible book homes in on the nebulous ideology of Communism which is guilty of killing 100 million people, thus providing me with the clarity of mind necessary to describe what I'm witnessing and experiencing in the United States of America, 2019.
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