Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (529 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N9S7B80 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 335 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In some cases, they killed one another for food. 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.Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: after a series of rebellions unsettled the province, Stalin set out to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry. Starvation set in rapidly, and people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. 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.. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil.Today, Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Bo
. Her previous books include Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, and Gulag, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and a finalist for three other major prizes. She lives in Poland with her husband, Radek Sikorski, a Polish politician, and their two children. ANNE APPLEBAUM is a columnist for The Washington Post, a Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics, and a contributor to The New York Rev
About the Author ANNE APPLEBAUM is a columnist for The Washington Post, a Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics, and a contributor to The New York Review of Books. She lives in Poland with her husband, Radek Sikorski, a Polish politician, and their two children. . Her previous books include Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, and Gulag, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and a finalist for three other major prizes