Political Violence: Belief, Behavior, and Legitimation

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
The Reception of Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror....Pages 23-37
Stalin and the Question of Soviet Genocide....Pages 39-47
The Victims Return: Gulag Survivors under Khrushchev....Pages 49-68
Leadership Succession and Political Violence in the USSR Following Stalin’s Death....Pages 69-92
Post-Communist Political Violence: The Poisoning of Aleksandr Litvinenko....Pages 93-107
The Mass Media in the Service of Soviet Communism and in Post-Communist Russia....Pages 109-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Managed Spontaneity in Rural Political Violence in China....Pages 127-142
Political Repression in Castro’s Cuba: Policies, Institutions and Victims....Pages 143-154
Revolutions and Revolutionary Ideologies in Latin America....Pages 155-164
Western Perceptions of Postcolonial Violence in Africa....Pages 165-175
Apologists of Totalitarianism: From Communism to Islam....Pages 177-191
The Roots of Arab and Muslim Violence....Pages 193-203
Back Matter....Pages 205-258