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> <p><strong>Part I: Red Holocaust: First wave</strong> 1. Dystopia 2. Twenty Million Souls 3. Colectivization and Terror-Starvation 4. The Great Terror 5. Gulag 6. Ethnic Cleansing 7. Captive Nations 8. Sword and Torch <strong>Part II Second Wave </strong>9. Overlapping Empires 10. Killing Fields <strong>Part III The Sixth Commandment,</strong> <strong>Part IV Terror-Command Economy</strong> 12. Siege Mobilization 13. Asian Terror-Command 14. Terror-Free Command 15. Illusion of Progress <strong>Part V Red Holocaust Denial</strong> 16. Corpus Delicti 17. Presumption of Innocence 18. Justifiable Homicide 19. Beyond Good and Evil 20. Clemency and Retribution <strong>Part VI Hitler's and Hirohito's Holocausts</strong> 21. Genocide and Lethal Labor Exploitation <strong>Part VII After the Second Wave</strong> 22. Prospects </p>