Political Violence

1. Introduction
Paul Hollander

Part I. Soviet Communism

2. The Reception of Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror
Joshua Rubenstein

3. Stalin and the Question of Soviet Genocide
Norman M. Naimark

4. The Victims Return: Gulag Survivors under Khrushchev
Stephen F. Cohen

5. Leadership Succession and Political Violence in the USSR Following Stalin’s Death
Mark Kramer

6. Post-Communist Political Violence: The Poisoning of Aleksandr Litvinenko
John B. Dunlop

7. The Mass Media in the Service of Soviet Communism and in Post-Communist Russia
Lee Edwards

Part II. Comparative Perspectives

8. Managed Spontaneity in Rural Political Violence in China
Arthur Waldron

9. Political Repression in Castro’s Cuba: Policies, Institutions and Victims
Maria C. Werlau

10. Revolutions and Revolutionary Ideologies in Latin America
Mark Falcoff

11. Western Perceptions of Postcolonial Violence in Africa
Anthony Daniels

12. Apologists of Totalitarianism: From Communism to Islam
Ibn Warraq

13. The Roots of Arab and Muslim Violence
David Pryce-Jones

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Terrorism and Political Violence, Conflict Studies