Red Famine: Stalin's War On Ukraine Paperback English by Anne Applebaum - 5-Jul-18
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| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| ISBN 13 | 9780141978284 |
| ISBN 10 | 141978287 |
| Author | Anne Applebaum |
| Language | English |
| Book Subtitle | Stalin's War On Ukraine |
| Book Description | Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizes In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events. The book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian scholars all over the world. It includes accounts of the famine by those who survived it, describing what human beings can do when driven mad by hunger. It shows how the Soviet state ruthlessly used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other in order to expunge supposedly 'anti-revolutionary' elements. It also records the actions of extraordinary individuals who did all they could to relieve the suffering. The famine was rapidly followed by an attack on Ukraine's cultural and political leadership - and then by a denial that it had ever happened at all. Census reports were falsified and memory suppressed. Some western journalists shamelessly swallowed the Soviet line; others bravely rejected it, and were undermined and harassed. The Soviet authorities were determined not only that Ukraine should abandon its national aspirations, but that the country's true history should be buried along with its millions of victims. Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and that history. At a moment of crisis between Russia and Ukraine, it also shows how far the present is shaped by the past. |
| Editorial Review | Meticulously researched, blisteringly written -- Dominic Sandbrook * The Sunday Times (Books of the Year) * Magisterial and heartbreaking -- Simon Sebag Montefiore * Evening Standard * Compelling in its detail and in its empathy -- Nick Rennison * The Sunday Times * Her account will surely become the standard treatment of one of history's great political atrocities -- Timothy Snyder * Washington Post * An exhaustive, authoritative and eloquent book. She deals with questions that have hitherto lacked unequivocal answers -- Donald Rayfield * Literary Review * |
| About the Author | Anne Applebaum is the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, and Iron Curtain, which in 2013 won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. She is Professor of Practice at the Institute for Global Affairs, London School of Economics, and a columnist for the Washington Post. She divides her time between Britain and Poland. |
| Publication Date | 5-Jul-18 |
| Number of Pages | 512 |
Red Famine: Stalin's War On Ukraine Paperback English by Anne Applebaum - 5-Jul-18
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