Political Violence

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Reception of Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror

Chapter 3 Stalin and the Question of Soviet Genocide

Chapter 4 The Victims Return: Gulag Survivors under Khrushchev

Chapter 5 Leadership Succession and Political Violence in the USSR Following Stalin’s Death

Chapter 6 Post-Communist Political Violence: The Poisoning of Aleksandr Litvinenko

Chapter 7 The Mass Media in the Service of Soviet Communism and in Post-Communist Russia

Chapter 8 Managed Spontaneity in Rural Political Violence in China

Chapter 9 Political Repression in Castro’s Cuba: Policies, Institutions and Victims

Chapter 10 Revolutions and Revolutionary Ideologies in Latin America

Chapter 11 Western Perceptions of Postcolonial Violence in Africa

Chapter 13 The Roots of Arab and Muslim Violence