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Red famine : Stalin's war on Ukraine / Anne Applebaum.

by Applebaum, Anne, 1964-

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Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart, 2017.

Genocide -- Ukraine -- History -- 20th century.

Collectivization of agriculture -- Ukraine -- History.

Famines -- Ukraine -- History -- 20th century.

Ukraine -- History -- Famine, 1932-1933.

9780771009303 (hc., Signal Canadian ed.)

9780385538855 (hc., Doubleday USA ed.)

Alternate title:

Stalin's war on Ukraine

xxx, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-434) and index.

Introduction: the Ukrainian question -- The Ukrainian revolution, 1917 -- Rebellion, 1919 -- Famine and truce: the 1920s -- The double crisis: 1927-9 -- Collectivization: revolution in the countryside, 1930 -- Rebellion, 1930 -- Collectivization fails, 1931-2 -- Famine decisions, 1932: requisitions, blacklists and borders -- Famine decisions, 1932: the end of Ukrainization -- Famine decisions, 1932: the searches and the searchers -- Starvation: spring and summer, 1933 -- Survival: spring and summer, 1933 -- Aftermath -- The cover-up -- The Holodomor in history and memory -- Epilogue: the Ukraine question reconsidered.

"From the author of Gulag and Iron Curtain, a 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. 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. After a series of rebellions unsettled the province, Stalin set out to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry. The state sealed the republic's borders and seized all available food. Starvation set in rapidly, and people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases, they killed one another for food. 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. 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. Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post. She lives in Poland"--Provided by publisher.

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