Courtois, Werth, Panné, Paczkowski, Bartosek, Margolin

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Collective authors of Il libro nero del comunismo (The Black Book of Communism), a controversial 1997 history of Communist regimes.

Reviews note the book was published in France in 1997 and released in Italy the following year by Mondadori. Reviewers describe the work as heavily documented, produced by historians/researchers (reviews mention CNRS researchers and university professors), and controversial for its death-toll estimates and polemical tone.

DeBaser hosts two reviews that call Il libro nero del comunismo a heavily researched but polemical work. Reviewers value the documentation and the moral urgency of exposing crimes, while criticizing disputed death-toll calculations and some rhetorical excesses. Both reviewers rate it 3/5.

For:Readers of political history, historiography, students and researchers interested in 20th-century totalitarian regimes and debates on communist crimes.

 The facts speak for themselves and show that the crimes committed by communist regimes concern about 100 million people versus the 25 million victims of Nazism. This simple observation should at least prompt a reflection on the similarity that the regime, which from 1945 onwards was considered the most criminal of the century, and a system that enjoyed full international legitimacy until 1991 and which today is in power in some countries and continues to have supporters worldwide.

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