Red famine Stalin's war on Ukraine
"In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization--in effect a second Russian revolution--which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died betwee...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Doubleday,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First United States edition. |
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| Summary: | "In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization--in effect a second Russian revolution--which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them ..."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Allen Lane, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2017"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xxx, 461 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-434) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780385538855 0385538855 |
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