Red famine
Uiterlijk 17 januari in huis
Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizes
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.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 juli 2018
Aantal pagina's: 512
Kaarten inbegrepen: Nee
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Anne Applebaum
Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd
Originele titel: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
AI-gegenereerd: Nee
Dyslexievriendelijk: Nee
Editie: 1st edition
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 128 mm
Product hoogte: 23 mm
Product lengte: 197 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 128 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 198 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 385 g
eWaste: Nee
EAN: 9780141978284