Red Famine
Stalin's War on Ukraine
by Anne Applebaum
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“A more readable book about Ukrainian history is “Red Famine” by Anne Applebaum. In order to tell the story of Stalin’s oppression, she gives a much abbreviated but far more digestible history of the country. 4 | Cannot recommend this book enough, the Holodomor, Stalinengineered genocide in Ukraine. Extraordinary work by @anneapplebaum | It's a great book, and like mine on Putin it would be nice if people were reading it for history instead of current events! | This is a phenomenal book, well researched and riveting in outlining Russian cruelty to Ukraine in the 1930s. Read it about two years ago, and highly recommend.”
Source →“A more readable book about Ukrainian history is “Red Famine” by Anne Applebaum. In order to tell the story of Stalin’s oppression, she gives a much abbreviated but far more digestible history of the country. 4 | Cannot recommend this book enough, the Holodomor, Stalinengineered genocide in Ukraine. Extraordinary work by @anneapplebaum | It's a great book, and like mine on Putin it would be nice if people were reading it for history instead of current events! | This is a phenomenal book, well researched and riveting in outlining Russian cruelty to Ukraine in the 1930s. Read it about two years ago, and highly recommend.”
Source →Recommended by 4 notable people, including Alan Cooper and Mark Hertling
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in History and Nonfiction.
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimesthe consequences of which still resonate todayIn 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivizationin effect a second Russian revolutionw...
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“A more readable book about Ukrainian history is “Red Famine” by Anne Applebaum. In order to tell the story of Stalin’s oppression, she gives a much abbreviated but far more digestible history of the country. 4 | Cannot recommend this book enough, the Holodomor, Stalinengineered genocide in Ukraine. Extraordinary work by @anneapplebaum | It's a great book, and like mine on Putin it would be nice if people were reading it for history instead of current events! | This is a phenomenal book, well researched and riveting in outlining Russian cruelty to Ukraine in the 1930s. Read it about two years ago, and highly recommend.”
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