Red Famine by Anne Applebaum
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.
Anne Applebaum is a Washington Post columnist and member of the editorial board. She has worked as the foreign and deputy editor of the Spectator (London), as the Warsaw correspondent for the Economist, and as a columnist for the online magazine Slate, as well as for various British publications. She is a Yale graduate and a Marshall Scholar. Her writing has also featured in a variety of periodicals, including the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and the Wall Street Journal. She and her husband, Radek Sikorski, live in Washington, D.C., with their two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780804170888 |
| ISBN 10 | 0804170886 |
| Title | Red Famine |
| Author | Anne Applebaum |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2018-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 608 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Cundill History Prize 2018 |
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