Red Holocaust

<p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>The book includes:</p><p>- a comprehensive study of the transcommunist holocaust</p><p>- a judicial assessment of holocaust culpability and special pleadings</p><p>- 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</p><p>- a comparative assessment of totalitarian high crimes against humanity</p><p>- a call for memory as a defense against recurrent economic racial and ethnic holocausts</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Steven Rosefielde</strong> is a Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. </p>