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Red Famine
Stalin's War on Ukraine
Taschenbuch von Anne Applebaum
Sprache: Englisch
Originalsprache: Englisch

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In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, 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 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.
In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, 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 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.
Über den Autor
Anne Applebaum is the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, and Iron Curtain, which in 2013 won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literatureand the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Geschichte
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
Artikel-ID: 111256828
Über den Autor
Anne Applebaum is the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, and Iron Curtain, which in 2013 won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literatureand the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Geschichte
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
Artikel-ID: 111256828
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