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The book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian scholars all over the world. 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. Census reports were falsified and memory suppressed. Some western journalists shamelessly swallowed the Soviet line; others bravely rejected it, and were undermined and harassed. 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. At a moment of crisis between Russia and Ukraine, it also shows how far the present is shaped by the past.
The book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian scholars all over the world. 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. Census reports were falsified and memory suppressed. Some western journalists shamelessly swallowed the Soviet line; others bravely rejected it, and were undermined and harassed. 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. At a moment of crisis between Russia and Ukraine, it also shows how far the present is shaped by the past.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Jahrhundert: | 20. Jahrhundert |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: |
XXVIII
484 S. 24 s/w Bildtaf. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780141978284 |
| ISBN-10: | 0141978287 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Originalsprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 376583 |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Applebaum, Anne |
| Hersteller: |
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin Penguin Press Penguin Classics |
| Maße: | 198 x 128 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Anne Applebaum |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.07.2018 |
| Gewicht: | 0,393 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Jahrhundert: | 20. Jahrhundert |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: |
XXVIII
484 S. 24 s/w Bildtaf. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780141978284 |
| ISBN-10: | 0141978287 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Originalsprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 376583 |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Applebaum, Anne |
| Hersteller: |
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin Penguin Press Penguin Classics |
| Maße: | 198 x 128 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Anne Applebaum |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.07.2018 |
| Gewicht: | 0,393 kg |
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