Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (738 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N9S7B80 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 423 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 thr
But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. Starvation set in rapidly, and people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. 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. 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
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. . 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