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Book Review: The Black Book of Communism

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The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stephane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panne, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, and Jean-Louis Margolin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999); 856 pages; $37.50. In 1875, Karl Marx wrote an article entitled, "Critique of the Gotha Programme." At one point in the text there appear the following sentences: "Between capitalist and communist society lies the period ...