Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more--from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain. With searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to eradicate 'backwardness' when undertaken by a regime in a state of war with its own people. --The Economist In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization--in effect a second Russian revolution--which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. Applebaum's compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the twenty-first.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0804170886
ISBN13:9780804170888
Release Date:September 2018
Publisher:Vintage
Length:608 Pages
Weight:1.34 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.1" x 7.9"
Related Subjects
Betrayal Political Corruption Propaganda Survival The Soviet Union Resistance HistoryCustomer Reviews
1 rating
For me, this is hard to follow
Published by Art Enthusiast , 1 year ago
Many ideas are launched forward and backward in time. These numerous brief hints at history are lost on me since I do not know Russian history. This book is probably more suited to someone who comes to it "pre-conditioned" with a background on these subjects.
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