Description: AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes-the consequences of which still resonate today 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. Today, Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more. 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. 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. 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.
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EAN: 9780804170888
UPC: 9780804170888
ISBN: 9780804170888
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Book Title: Red Famine : Stalin's War on Ukraine
Number of Pages: 608 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Europe / Eastern, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Modern / 20th Century, Genocide & War Crimes, Disasters & Disaster Relief
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 1.2 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 19.9 Oz
Author: Anne Applebaum
Item Length: 7.9 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
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