• Foreword: The Uses of Atrocity Martin Malia
• Introduction: The Crimes of Communism Stéphane Courtois
I. A State against Its People: Violence, Repression, and Terror in the Soviet Union Nicolas Werth
1. Paradoxes and Misunderstandings Surrounding the October Revolution
2. The Iron Fist of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
3. The Red Terror
4. The Dirty War
5. From Tambov to the Great Famine
6. From the Truce to the Great Turning Point
7. Forced Collectivization and Dekulakization
8. The Great Famine
9. Socially Foreign Elements and the Cycles of Repression
10. The Great Terror (1936 -1938)
11. The Empire of the Camps
12. The Other Side of Victory
13. Apogee and Crisis in the Gulag System
14. The Last Conspiracy
15. The Exit from Stalinism

Conclusion

II. Word Revolution, Civil War, and Terror Stéphane Courtois, Jean-Louis Panné, and Rémi Kauffer

16. The Comintern in Action Stéphane Courtois and Jean-Louis Panné
17. The Shadow of the NKVD in Spain Stéphane Courtois and Jean-Louis Panné
18. Communism and Terrorism Rémi Kauffer

III. The Other Europe: Victim of Communism Andrzej Paczkowski and Karel Bartoek

19. Poland, the "Enemy Nation" Andrzej Paczkowski
20. Central and Southeastern Europe Karel Bartoek

IV. Communism in Asia: Between Reeducation and Massacre Jean-Louis Margolin and Pierre Rigoulot

Introduction

21. China: A Long March into Night Jean-Louis Margolin
22. Crimes, Terror, and Secrecy in North Korea Pierre Rigoulot
23. Vietnam and Laos: The Impasse of War Communism Jean-Louis Margolin
24. Cambodia: The Country of Disconcerting Crimes Jean-Louis Margolin

Conclusion

Select Bibliography for Asia

V. The Third World Pascal Fontaine, Yves Santamaria, and Sylvain Boulouque

25. Communism in Latin America Pascal Fontaine
26. Afrocommunism: Ethiopia, Angola, and Mozambique Yves Santamaria
27. Communism in Afghanistan Sylvain Boulouque

Conclusion: Why? Stéphane Courtois
• Notes
• Index
• About the Authors

Stéphane Courtois is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and editor of the journal Communisme.

Nicolas Werth is a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History.

Jean-Louis Panné collaborated on the Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français.

Andrzej Paczkowski is Deputy Director and a professor at the Institute for Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Karel Bartosek is acting head of research at CNRS and the editor of the journal La nouvelle alternative.

Jean-Louis Margolin is a lecturer in history and coordinator of lectures at the University of Provence and a researcher at the Research Institute on Southeast Asia of CNRS.