5/19/2023 0 Comments Red Famine by Anne Applebaum![]() ![]() This term has been used to define the genocide through hunger perpetrated between 19, causing the deaths of anywhere between 2 million and 12 million people. ![]() Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine is a new addition to this scholarship, focusing on the tragedy which befell the Ukrainian people under Joseph Stalin’s rule: namely, the Holodomor. The historiography on Soviet crimes is quite abundant, offering myriad interpretations throughout the Cold War and in the period after it. If you are interested in this review, you may like to listen to a podcast of Anne Applebaum’s lecture ‘Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, and Why it Still Matters’, recorded at LSE on 4 October 2017. Drawing on archival documents, written and oral testimonies and historical scholarship, this is a valuable addition to our understanding of this devastating and long-neglected event, reccommends Vlad Onaciu. ![]() In Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, Anne Applebaum offers a new comprehensive account of the Holodomor: the famine that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians through starvation in the early 1930s. ![]()
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