Applebaum, Anne
Red Famine
- ISBN 13:
- 9780141978284
- author:
- Applebaum, Anne
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 512
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.3 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- History, Europe, Russia,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine In 1929, Stalin launched a policy of agricultural collectivization, forcing millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history, with at least five million people dying between 1931 and 1933. This devastating event was not just a consequence of a bad policy, but a deliberate attempt by the Soviet state to eliminate a political problem. Anne Applebaum's Red Famine sheds light on the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. The book reveals the shocking truth behind the famine, arguing that more than three million of the dead were Ukrainians who were deliberately targeted by the state. This is a story of ordinary people caught up in one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the twenty-first century.
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