How long does it take to read The Black Book of Communism?
Stéphane Courtois
The Black Book of Communism by Stéphane Courtois takes about 17 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 25 minutes
A long haul
First published 1997. 950 pages, about 261,250 words.
35 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 29 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
""Revolutions, like trees, must be judged by their fruit," Ignazio Silone wrote, and this is the standard the authors apply to the Communist experience - in the China of "the Great Helmsman," Kim Il Sung's Korea, Vietnam under "Uncle Ho" and Cuba under Castro, Ethiopia under Mengistu, Angola under Neto, and Afghanistan under Najibullah. The authors, all distinguished scholars based in Europe, document Communist crimes against humanity, but also crimes against national and universal culture, from Stalin's destruction of hundreds of churches in Moscow to Ceausescu's leveling of the historic heart of Bucharest to the wide-scale devastation visited on Chinese culture by Mao's Red Guards."--BOOK JACKET. "As the death toll mounts - as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, and on and on - the authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Kommunismus, Verfolgung, Politische Verfolgung, Verbrechen, Sozialistische Staaten, Geschichte
