Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (776 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385538855 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Devastating and definitive, 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. 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 h
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. . Her previous books include Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, and Gulag, win
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. . She lives in Poland with her husband, Radek Sikorski, a Polish politician, and their two children