Talk:The Black Book of Communism

Any way we can refute Wikipedia and certain people in claiming the book is fraudulent?

Hi. I'm dealing with someone who claims the Black Book of Communism is fraudulent, and he's also claiming that two of the authors are claiming it was fraudulent, citing Wikipedia and some sources it cited.

I need to figure out how to refute those claims, maybe note it in this article while refuting it at the same time. Think you can help.

For the record, I'm referring to this passage:

"Moreover, two of the book's main contributors—Nicolas Werth and Jean-Louis Margolin—as well as Karel Bartosek

publicly disassociated themselves from Courtois' statements in the introduction and criticized his editorial conduct. Werth and Margolin felt Courtois was "obsessed" with arriving at a total of 100 million killed which resulted in "sloppy and biased scholarship" and faulted him for exaggerating death tolls in specific countries.

They also argued that based on the results of their studies, one can tentatively estimate the total number of the victims at between 65 and 93 million.

In particular, Margolin, who authored the Black Book's chapter on Vietnam, clarified "that he has never mentioned a million deaths in Vietnam".

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