Ebook: Political violence: belief, behavior, and legitimation

The reception of Robert Conquest's The great terror / Joshua Rubenstein -- Stalin and the question of Soviet genocide / Norman M. Naimark -- The victims return : gulag survivors under Khrushchev / Stephen F. Cohen -- Leadership succession and political violence in the USSR following Stalin's death / Mark Kramer -- Post-Communist political violence : the poisoning of Aleksandr Litvinenko / John B. Dunlop -- The mass media in the service of Soviet Communism and in post-Communist Russia / Lee Edwards -- Managed spontaneity in rural political violence in China / Arthur Waldron -- Political repression in Castro's Cuba : policies, institutions and victims / Maria C. Werlau -- Revolutions and revolutionary ideologies in Latin America / Mark Falcoff -- Western perceptions of postcolonial violence in Africa / Anthony Daniels -- Apologists of totalitarianism : from Communism to Islam / Ibn Warraq -- The roots of Arab and Muslim violence / David Pryce-Jones.;A collection of original case studies of different types of political violence in the 20th and 21st century inspired by the pioneering work of Robert Conquest. They focus on the origins, manifestations and legitimation of such violence. Historic settings and case studies include the former Soviet Union, Mao's China, Castro's Cuba and the terrorism associated with radical-militant Islam.