Böcker av R. J. Rummel

In The Blue Book of Freedom,"" R. J. Rummel asserts that democracy is the solution to the scourges that face the world. A student of war and peace for more than forty years, he has learned that democratic freedom provides a solution to the evils that have plagued mankind. ""The Blue Book of Freedom"" presents the results of his work in everyday language. The main points are: * Freedom is the way to economic and human security. * Free people never have famine. * Where people are free, political violence is minimal. * The more freedom a people enjoy, the less likely their government will murder them. * The less free the people in any two nations are, the bloodier and more destructive any war between them will be. * To do away with famine, mass impoverishment, democide (the murder by a government of its own people), and war, promote freedom. * Democratic freedom is a method of nonviolence and an antidote to war.""

While there are estimates of the number of people killed by Soviet authorities during particular episodes or campaigns, until now, no one has tried to calculate the complete human toll of Soviet genocides and mass murders since the revolution of 1917

This is R. J. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide

Except for Soviet citizens, no people in this century have endured so much mass killing as have the Chinese

Chinese have been murdered by rebels conniving with their own rulers, and then by soldiers of other lands. This book relates the history of the period within which the nature and the amount of killings are presented. It provides a statistical table giving the basic estimates with their sources and qualifications.

This is R. J. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide