Communism has claimed the lives of more than 100 million people in the less than 100 years since Russia's Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917, according to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Its death toll is higher than that of World War I and World War II combined. Communism began a wave of famine and killing that swept through Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. In every country it touched, totalitarian regimes took power or violent g