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From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States Hardcover – April 17, 2006

by Paul Hollander (Editor), Anne Applebaum (Foreword)

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As a global phenomenon, the scale and character of communism is only now coming into focus. The opening of formerly inaccessible archives and landmark books such as The Black Book of Communism have helped to establish empirically the extent and brutality of Communist totalitarianism. But what about Communist terror as it was personally experienced by the dissidents, the so-called obstructionists who stood in the way of the Communists’ efforts to create the new man of the socialist utopia?

From the Gulag to the Killing Fields is another landmark volume—and the only one of its kind. Edited by renowned scholar of communism Paul Hollander, it gathers together more than forty dramatic personal memoirs of Communist violence and repression from political prisoners across the globe. From these compelling accounts several distinctive features of Communist political violence can be discerned. The most important, argues Hollander, is that communism was "violence with a higher purpose"—that is, it was devised and undertaken to create a historically superior social system that would not only abolish scarcity, exploitation, and inequality, but would also create a new and unique sense of community, social solidarity, and personal fulfillment.

Nothing, of course, was allowed to stand in the way of this effort to radically and totally transform the human condition—least of all human beings. But, as Anne Applebaum notes in her foreword, human nature persisted: "Every person who entered the camps discovered qualities in themselves, both good and evil, that they hadn’t previously known they had. Ultimately, that selfdiscovery is the true subject of most camp memoirs, and the true subject of this book."

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April 17, 2006
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Intercollegiate Studies Institute; First Edition (April 17, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 750 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1932236783
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1932236781
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.13 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 2.25 x 9 inches

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Eric F.

Great book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 15, 2021

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Everything arrived on time and as advertised. Communist persecution. Hmmm should we fear the left or the right?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 3, 2013

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This is one of the scariest books I have ever read. Parts have made me so sick I thought I was going to throw up. The inhumanity is horrific. Socialist/Communist loving Americans need to wake up and read what happens when government takes total control of your life. A recurring theme of these martyrs is the disbelieve that it was happening to them or that it was all some kind of misunderstanding which would be quickly resolved. Most had no idea what they did or why they were arrested and they truly believed they would be let go even up to the minute of their death. Get this book. Read it. Digest it. Pass it along to a friend. Better yet, pass it along to a Progressive!

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M. Heiss

Excellent compilation of excerpted accounts of communist brutality towards its own citizens. Interestingly, most of these are

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 8, 2015

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Some of these accounts are very, very personal. Hard to read. Interestingly, most of these are written by educated fellow-travelers, committed communists who worked hard to bring revolution to their countries, only to find themselves at the sharp end of the bayonet. It is always so, ever since the French Revolution. Revolutions based on envy always end in death squads and famine.

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Geoff Puterbaugh

This book should scare you & terrify you

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Perhaps the most terrifying statement I have read in my life comes in footnote #2 to the Introduction of this magisterial work:

"In September 2000 I asked a class of over 300 students (at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, campus where I taught) how many of them had learned anything about repression in Communist countries in high school. Not one hand was raised. I also asked how many had heard the word "Gulag" --- four of them had."

So: Communism produced 100 million corpses, and the people responsible for this, the greatest slaughter in history, are covering it up. It is not to be taught, anywhere.

Small wonder that Paul Hollander had to spend almost a decade finding a publisher for this book. (!!)

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mascmen7

Soviet Union was ruled by Jewish Bolsheviks from Nov 7, 1917 on and were brutal.

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Churches closed, clergy murdered, small businessmen and teachers murdered. The cries of dead Russians have haunted world since 1917 and these stories give you an idea of how horrible and terrifying it was in Russia if you did not agree with communism. Waiting at midnite for the knock on the door by the KGB to take you you to prison and then execution or Siberia.

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Tyler_Davis

Everyone should read this.

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True expose on the horrors of communism. This book exposes communism in fact. This is very different from the theories and lies pushed on college and other students by "professors" and other educators. Everyone should read this. What makes it even worse is that none of the mass murderers in every sense of the word have ever been tried for crimes against humanity.

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Scott B. Bergstrom

One of the ten books for a 20th Century time capsule

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No understanding of the 20th Century is complete without these first-hand accounts. Along with Anne Applebaum's _Gulag_, this book is essential reading for every student of history.

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Albion Beirut

what is wrong with this picture??

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The single most striking fact about Communism is that despite millions of corpses and hair-raising cruelties not a single communist has ever been brought to trial for human rights violations except for some Yugoslavs who were tried for crimes they committed in the name of Nationalism. In other words, their crime was to act like Nazis. Pol Pot was never brought to trial and his unrepentant first Lieutanant was living out a comfortable retirement in Phnom Peng when last I heard him mentioned. When the Olympic Games were broadcast viewers saw a giant portrait of Mao over the entrance to the sports palace. Some of these mass murderers are still alive and if we put 1/1000th the energy into chasing them that we put into chasing down elderly Nazis there would be hundreds to try. But such trials would amount to admitting that extreme zealotry on the Left also leads to mass murder, and that can't be allowed.

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