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Theory-based topic

Proposed topic

"[T]he discussion of the view that Communism was the greatest mass murderer in XX century. Who said that? Why? What was the main purpose for putting forward this idea? How this idea was accepted? Who supports that? Who criticise it and what the criticism consists in? How this idea is linked to recent trends in Holocaust obfuscation? And so on, and so forth. ... ." Non-primary literature about this proposed topic:

Ghodsee, Kristen (Fall 2014). "A Tale of 'Two Totalitarianisms': The Crisis of Capitalism and the Historical Memory of Communism" (PDF). History of the Present. 4 (2). Duke University Press: 115–142. doi:10.5406/historypresent.4.2.0115. JSTOR 10.5406/historypresent.4.2.0115. Retrieved 7 December 2021 – via Scholars at Harvard.
Neumayer, Laure (November 2017). "Advocating for the Cause of the 'Victims of Communism' in the European Political Space: Memory Entrepreneurs in Interstitial Fields". Nationalities Papers. 45 (6). Cambridge University Press: 992–1012. doi:10.1080/00905992.2017.1364230. ISSN 0090-5992.
Ghodsee, Kristen; Sehon, Scott (22 March 2018). Dresser, Sam (ed.). "The Merits of Taking an Anti-Anti-Communism Stance". Aeon. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
Neumayer, Laure (2018). The Criminalisation of Communism in the European Political Space after the Cold War (E-book ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 9781351141741.
Neumayer, Laure (2020). "Bridges Across the Atlantic? Intertwined Anti-Communist Mobilisations in Europe and the United States after the Cold War". Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest (2–3). Presses Universitaires de France: 151–183. Retrieved 7 December 2021 – via CAIRN.
Dujisin, Zoltan (July 2020). "A History of Post-Communist Remembrance: From Memory Politics to the Emergence of a Field of Anticommunism". Theory and Society. 50 (January 2021). Springer: 65–96. doi:10.1007/s11186-020-09401-5. S2CID 225580086.
Engel-Di Mauro, Salvatore; et al. (4 May 2021). "Anti-Communism and the Hundreds of Millions of Victims of Capitalism". Capitalism Nature Socialism. 32 (1). Routledge: 1–17. doi:10.1080/10455752.2021.1875603.

Of course, there are also secondary sources, e.g. reviews of Courtois' thesis, and I am sure TFD and Siebert can provided many more. I put those sources because they are tertiary about the proposed topic,1 which the other topics lack, and summarize for us what proponents of the topic actually say and believe in.2 They also shows that it is mainly a anti-communist/totalitarian field of memory, of which those sources are experts. For the politicization of the topic, Holocaust obfuscation and trivialization, and memories, see:

Liedy, Amy Shannon; Ruble, Blair (7 March 2011). "Holocaust Revisionism, Ultranationalism, and the Nazi/Soviet 'Double Genocide' Debate in Eastern Europe". Wilson Center. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
Kühne, Thomas (May 2012). "Great Men and Large Numbers: Undertheorising a History of Mass Killing". Contemporary European History. 21 (2). Cambridge University Press: 133–143. doi:10.1017/S0960777312000070. ISSN 0960-7773. JSTOR 41485456.
Shafir, Michael (Summer 2016). "Ideology, Memory and Religion in Post-Communist East Central Europe: A Comparative Study Focused on Post-Holocaust". Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies. 15 (44). Universitatea Babes-Bolyai: 52–110. Retrieved 7 December 2021 – via JSRI.
Subotić, Jelena (18 November 2019). "How Holocaust Memory was Hijacked in Post-Communist States". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
Radonić, Ljiljana (2020). The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe (E-book ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 9781000712124. Retrieved 7 December 2021 – via Google Books.
Subotić, Jelena (4 August 2020). "The Appropriation of Holocaust Memory in Post-Communist Eastern Europe". Modern Languages Open (1). Liverpool University Press: 22. doi:10.3828/mlo.v0i0.315. ISSN 2052-5397.

Notes

1. They generally mention the 100 million number and/or Courtois/The Black Book of Communism.

2. This is very helpful in fixing the article's "He said, she said" structure, citing it to the author themselves rather than secondary sources about them. Rather than cite Courtois for what he said, we are using secondary and tertiary sources for it. If there are no such sources for other authors, then it means they are likely undue and should not be discussed.

Davide King (talk) 10:39, 7 December 2021 (UTC)