[Billthedrill]

An Old-History BTT. There were, of course, brilliant scholars who risked professional censure in bucking this trend - Conquest, Pipes, and Himmelfarb, among others. Full vindication for me came in the reading of The Black Book of Communism earlier this year. It will be very grim, repetitive reading for some, but the question occurs after nearly every page - "they ignored this?"

[elbucko]

"The Black Book of Communism"

I read it too. It was a grim tale. So many of the Left's intellectuals were bathing in a river in Egypt, while millions of human beings were brutally tortured and murdered.

[Carthago delenda est]

What is sad is that it is difficult to think of any others besides Conquest, Pipes, and Himmelfarb. Richard Gid Powers wrote a good book exonerating anti-Communism some years ago, and Ronald Radosh, Arthur Herman, Allen Weinstein, Sam Tanenhaus, Paul Hollander, and Adam Ulam have all challenged some aspect of traditional scholarly beliefs regarding Communism...but still, there aren't too many who have been speaking up for their entire careers.

At least Haynes and Klehr have added their name to the list of courageous scholars.