Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and that history. This book centres on the horrific and formative events that occurred in Ukraine from 1932-1934 and resulted in the death of upwards of four million people in a series of politically orchestrated. 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. 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. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum will discuss her research on the Holodomor, a famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s that killed nearly 4 million people, and which she contends was orchestrated by Joseph Stalin. It also records the actions of extraordinary individuals who did all they could to relieve the suffering. It shows how the Soviet state used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other in order to expunge supposedly 'anti-revolutionary' elements. Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine is not the first book to chronicle this appalling history. Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and that history. It includes accounts by survivors describing what human beings can do when driven mad by hunger. Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and that history. The book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony. Red Famine shows how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food.

Red Famine by Anne Applebaum