Good books about the history of Communism

Something along those lines that details some of the atrocities occurring behind the iron curtain, is The Gulag Archipelago. It goes into depth about the gulag camps and how they tortured millions of people.

It is classified as fiction, and that is how it appears in my Library, as you can see from the catalog entry. However, given the author and the content, it is far from untrue.

If you find it, please post here.
It may not exist though.
The Nazi Reich consisted of one nation over 12 or so years.
A full treatment of Communism would have to cover USSR, China, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Vietnam, Cambodia, Somalia, Angola, Cuba, Laos, Mongolia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Yemen, Ethiopia, Kampuchea, and North Korea, among others.
It would also have to cover from 1917 to at least 1993. Keep in mind China, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam, and Cuba are still active communist states, although some have embraced markets (albeit in a centralized, controlled manner).
It would be very hard to cover all that in one book.

Capital by Carl Marx

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The Gulag Archipelago

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Highest recommendation.

Hitler got Fascism from Mussolini so it’s a bit more detailed than just nazi Germany.

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Ten Days That Shook the World

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This is little more than a celebration of the Bolshevik revolution.

The Shadow of the Winter Palace.
I have not read but a friend recommended it.

Exactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, finally sweep the autocracy away. The Shadow of the Winter Palace recounts an extraordinary century of Russian history, a politically tempestuous time that was also a Golden Age of intellectual and artistic achievement?the century of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, of Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. A master stylist and a distinguished historian, Edward Crankshaw limns dazzling portraits of the czars, the revolutionaries, and a host of other unforgettable characters?and provides a riveting, sweeping history "jam-packed with information about the past and implications for the present" (Atlantic Monthly).