Foreword : The uses of atrocity / Martin Malia
Introduction : The crimes of communism / Stéphane Courtois
pt. 1. A state against its people : violence, repression, and terror in the Soviet Union / Nicholas Werth. Paradoxes and misunderstandings surrounding the October Revolution ; The iron fist of the dictatorship of the Proletariat ; The red terror ; The dirty war ; From Tambov to the Great Famine ; From the truce to the great turning point ; Forced collectivization and dekulakization ; The great famine ; Socially foreign elements and the cycles of repression ; The Great Terror (1936-1938) ; The empire of the camps ; The other side of victory ; Apogee and crisis in the Gulag system ; The last conspiracy ; The exit from Stalinism ; Conclusion
pt. 2. Word revolution, civil war, and terror / Stéphane Courtois, Jean-Louis Panné, and Réne Kauffer. The Comintern in action / Stéphane Courtois and Jean-Louis Panné ; The shadow of the NKVD in Spain / Stéphane Courtois and Jean-Louis Panné ; Communism and terrorism / Rémi Kauffer.
pt. 3. The other Europe : victim of communism / Andrzej Paczkowski and Karol Bartošek. Poland, the "enemy nation" / Andrzej Paczkowski ; Central and Southeastern Europe / Karel Bartošek
pt. 4. Communism in Asia : between reeducation and massacre / Jean-Louis Margolin and Pierre Rigoulot. Introduction ; China : a long march into night / Jean-Louis Margolin ; Crimes, terror, and secrecy in North Korea / Pierre Rigoulot ; Vietnam and Laos : the impasse of war communism ; Cambodia : the country of disconcerting crimes / Jean-Louis Margolin ; Conclusion ; Select bibliography for Asia
pt. 5. The Third World / Pascal Fontaine, Yves Santamaria, and Sylvain Boulouque. Communism in Latin America / Pascal Fontaine ; Afrocommunism : Ethiopia, Angola, and Mozambique / Yves Santamaria
Communism in Afghanistan / Sylvain Boulouque ; Conclusion / Stéphane Courtois.
