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Red Famine [electronic resource] : Stalin's War on Ukraine

Applebaum, Anne2025

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Summary

In 1932–33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. 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 audiobook draws on a mass of archival material and firsthand testimony. 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. 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.