Political Violence

Introduction: Robert Conquest's Work and Contemporary Political Violence; P.Hollander PART I: SOVIET COMMUNISM The Reception and Significance of The Great Terror; J.Rubenstein Stalin and the Question of Genocide; N.Naimark Leadership Succession and Political Violence in the Soviet Union Following Stalin's Death; M.Kramer Gulag Survivors After Stalin; S.F.Cohen The Mass Media in the Service of Communist Totalitarianism; L.Edwards Post-Communist Political Violence and the Litvinenko Case; J.Dunlop PART II: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Chinese Political Violence Under Mao and Its Official Interpretations; A.Waldron The System of Repression in Cuba: Policies, Institutions and Victims; M.Werlau Latin American Revolutions and Their Ideologies; M.Falcoff Postcolonial Violence in Africa and Its Western Perceptions; A.Daniels Apologists of Totalitarianism: Islamic and Communist; I.Warraq Stalinist and Islamic Terror; S.P.Cohen The Roots of Arab and Muslim Violence; D.Pryce-Jones