Red Holocaust

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. 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.

Chapter Introduction -- part Part I Red Holocaust: First Wave -- chapter 1 Dystopia -- chapter 2 20 Million Souls -- chapter 3 Collectivization and Terror-Starvation -- chapter 4 The Great Terror -- chapter 5 Gulag -- chapter 6 Ethnic Cleansing -- chapter 7 Captive Nations -- chapter 8 Sword and Torch -- part Part II The Second Wave -- chapter 9 Overlapping Empires -- chapter 10 Killing Fields -- part Part III Liberalization -- chapter 11 The Sixth Commandment -- part Part IV Terror-Command Economy -- chapter 12 Siege-Mobilization -- chapter 13 Asian Terror-Command -- chapter 14 Terror-Free Command -- chapter 15 Illusion of Progress -- part Part V Red Holocaust Denial -- chapter 16 Corpus Delicti -- chapter 17 Presumption of Innocence -- chapter 18 Justifiable Homicide -- chapter 19 Beyond Good and Evil -- chapter 20 Clemency and Retribution -- part Part VI Hitler's and Hirohito's Holocausts -- chapter 21 Genocide and Lethal Labor Exploitation -- part Part VII After the Second Wave -- chapter 22 Prospects.