Nicolas werth born 1950 is a french historian, and an internationally known expert on communist studies, particularly the history of the soviet union. Death in a siberian gulag human rights and crimes against humanity werth, nicolas, rendall, steven, gross, jan on. Europe between hitler and stalin, new york, basic books, 2010. Marot, to the contrary, argues that russia up to 1917 was feudal, and thereafter, up to stalin s 1929 assault on the peasantry, it was a pettyproducer economy with a household agriculture where 85 percent of the population was employed working not for a market but for. In 2009 a documentary lile aux cannibales cannibal island was made, based on the book. Nicolas werth the greatest mass crime of stalinism youtube. Crimes, terror, repression, on librarything librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers home groups talk zeitgeist. The soviet story self coauthor of the black book of communism 2008. Outline for an inventory and classification for about 15 years now, the opening of the soviet archives, partial though it twas, has allowed historians to go further in the understanding of the darker, repressive and criminal aspects of the stalinist regime. Discover book depositorys huge selection of nicolas werth books online. Nicolas werth s most popular book is the black book of communism. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Many of the victims were sent to labor camps, but ten thousand. Datasets available include lcsh, bibframe, lc name authorities, lc classification, marc codes, premis vocabularies, iso language codes, and more.
Le dictateur considerait en i timothy snyder, bloodlands. Nicolas werth born 1950 is a french historian, and a scholar of communist studies, particularly the history of the soviet union. Werth carefully gathered together the exceptional documents unearthed after 1991 by memorial researchers, to whom the book is properly dedicated, and ably combined them with those published by scholars such as khaustov, as well as with what he himself discovered and learnt over the years, to. Buy cannibal island by nicolas werth with free delivery. The books central argument, copiously documented and repeated in upwards of a dozen different essays, is that the history of communism should be read above all as the history of an allout assault on society by a series of conspiratorial cliques led by cruel dictators lenin, stalin, mao zedong, kim ii sung, pol pot, and dozens of imitators. Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100,000 booksellers. He wrote the chapters dedicated to the ussr in the black book of communism.
He is the son of alexander werth, a russianborn british journalist and writer. Nicolas werth project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Additional resource materials the holodomor faminegenocide in ukraine 19321933. Nicolas werth has 33 books on goodreads with 2390 ratings. Beyond totalitarianism in essays written jointly by specialists on soviet and german history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of stalinism and nazism and.
Stalin i glavnoe upravlenie gosbezopasnosti nkvd, 19371938, m m. Books in french advanced search browse subjects new releases best sellers used books english books fast, free delivery, video streaming, music, and much more prime members enjoy free twoday shipping, free sameday or oneday delivery to select areas, prime video, prime music, prime reading, and more. Publishing history this is a chart to show the publishing history of editions of works about this subject. May 24, 2010 a drawback of these books is that they almost never include those convicted as ordinary criminals which they were not. Courtois, stephane, nicolas werth, and others, the black book of communism trans. During the spring of 1933, stalin s police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of.
It recounts the fate of 6,000 special settlers, rounded up in moscow and leningrad in 1933 and sent to the island of nazino in the ob river in western siberia. This famine owes nothing to the weather conditions, but stems directly from the forced colle. Werth carefully gathered together the exceptional documents unearthed after 1991 by memorial researchers, to whom the book is properly dedicated, and ably combined them with those published. Death in a siberian gulag nicolas werth during the spring of 1933, stalin s police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the soviet regimes cleansing of moscow and leningrad and deported them to siberia.
On connait les statistiques des adherents, mais pourquoi et comment devienton communiste. Nicolas werth and jeanlouis margolin sparked a scandal in paris when they publicly disassociated themselves from courtoiss opinions about. Archie brown, the rise and fall of communism, vintage books, 2009, pages 493494. There are a number of web sites and other materials available online in the english language, which are reliable and current. Nicolas werth, author of the black book of communism. During the spring of 1933, stalin s police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the soviet regimes cleansing of moscow and leningrad and deported them to siberia. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. Violas text continues to employ the concept that was developed in her earlier book, that joseph stalin s relationship with the peasantry was unnecessarily confrontational and warlike. The authors show how and why, wherever the ideology of communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. The linked data service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the library of congress. Yet austere though this inventory is, its cumulative impact is overwhelming.
Death in a siberian gulag human rights and crimes against humanity by nicolas werth and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Between 1931 and 1933, six million peasants starved in the ussr. This is an intelligent, humane and rich book, one from which even the specialist has much to learn. Titan comics is a bold new publishing initiative from titan publishing, offering readers the best new stories from new and established comics creators, and offering those creators a great deal to bring their stories to a worldwide audience.
He is the son of alexander werth, a russian born british journalist and writer. In 2012 losurdo engaged french anticommunist scholar nicolas werth in a debate over stalin. How nicolas werth betrayed his father alexander werth. Get free shipping on cannibal island by nicolas werth, from. Find a library or download libby an app by overdrive. Shop amongst our popular books, including 21, the black book of communism, russia at war, 19411945 and more from nicolas werth. He has taught at the universities of minsk and moscow, and is a former cultural attache at the french embassy in moscow. That impression troubled his distinguished coauthors. The french historian nicolas werth, who earlier coauthored the black book of communism, published the book cannibal island about the affair in 2006. The black book of communism gives a balance sheet of our present knowledge of communisms human costs, archivally based where possible, and otherwise drawing on the best secondary works, and with due allowance for the difficulties of quantification. They mixed it with water and drank it and then they immediately got diarrhea. Perhaps it is not surprising that nicolas werth, the french historian who cowrote the black book of communism, has decided in cannibal island to return to an incident he merely mentioned in that vast book. Arseni roguinsky is a writer and historian, activist for human rights and president of the memorialassociation in moscow. This international bestseller plumbs archives in the former soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of communism around the world.
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Lenine trotski staline by sorlin pierre et irene and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The weak point of these books, from my perspective, lies in their analysis of the forces causing this tragedy. Werth skillfully weaves this episode into a broader story about the soviet frenzy in the 1930s to purge society of all those deemed to be unfit. Valentina kuryliw websites, books and other sources. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Stalin is published by decision of the central committee of the communist party of the soviet union bolsheviks.
Pdf the black book of communism download full pdf book. Nicolas werths most popular book is the black book of communism. Since 2006, the holodomor has been recognized by ukraine and 15 other countries as a genocide of the ukrainian people carried out by the soviet government. The work of contemporary rightwing british journalist andrew alexander, for instance, can be easily used to deconstruct the pseudohistory as peddled by nicolas werth, particularly in his 2012 book entitled america and the imperialism of ignorance. Many of the memorial books also include extensive valuable documentary materials from local and central kgb archives, as well as autobiographical memoirs from survivors. Nicolas werth werth, nicolas used books, rare books and new books find all books by nicolas werth and compare prices find signed collectible books by nicolas werth. Nicolas werth, a french historian of the soviet era, reconstructs their gruesome final days using rare archival material from deep inside the stalinist vaults. The book s central argument, copiously documented and repeated in upwards of a dozen different essays, is that the history of communism should be read above all as the history of an allout assault on society by a series of conspiratorial cliques led by cruel dictators lenin, stalin, mao zedong, kim il sung, pol pot, and dozens of imitators. During the holodomor, millions of inhabitants of ukraine, the majority of whom were ethnic ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of ukraine. Etre communiste en urss sous staline nicolas werth on. Along the x axis is time, and on the y axis is the count of editions published.
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