Twentieth and twenty-first century communism is a failed
experiment in social engineering that needlessly killed
approximately 60 million people and perhaps tens of millions more.
These high crimes against humanity constitute a Red Holocaust that
exceeds the combined carnage of the French Reign of Terror, Ha
Shoah, Showa Japan's Asian holocaust, and all combat deaths in
World War I and II. This fascinating book investigates high crimes
against humanity in the Soviet Union, eastern and central Europe,
North Korea, China, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia 1929-2009, and
compares the results with Ha Shoah and the Japanese Asian
Holocaust.
As in other studies, blame is ascribed to political, ideological
and personal causes, but special emphasis is given to internal
contradictions in Marx's utopian model as well as Stalinist and
post-Stalinist transition systems concocted to realize communist
ends. This faulty economic engineering forms a bridge to the larger
issue of communism's historical failure.
The book includes:
- a comprehensive study of the transcommunist holocaust
- a judicial assessment of holocaust culpability and special
pleadings
- an obituary for Stalinism everywhere except North Korea, and a
death watch for contemporary communism in China, Vietnam, Laos,
Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba and Nepal
- a comparative assessment of totalitarian high crimes against
humanity
- a call for memory as a defense against recurrent economic,
racial and ethnic holocausts
The book will be useful to undergraduate and higher level
students interested in Russian history, Stalism, communism, North
and South Korean economic performance and international
affairs.
Steven Rosefielde is a Professor of Economics at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a member of the Russian Academy
of Natural Sciences.
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