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Some pointed out that the book's account of violence is one-sided.

Amir Weiner of Stanford University characterizes the " Black Book " as seriously flawed, inconsistent, and prone to mere provocation.

In particular, the authors are said to savage Marxist ideology.

The methodology of the authors has been criticized.

Alexander Dallin writes that moral, legal, or political judgement hardly depends on the number of victims.

It is also argued that a similar chronicle of violence and death tolls can be constructed from an examination of colonialism and capitalism in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In particular, the Black Book's attribution of 1 million deaths in Vietnam to Communism while ignoring the U. S. role has been criticized as a methodological flaw according to La Roche College professor Paul Le Blanc.