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Red Famine - Stalin's War on Ukraine (Paperback)
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Red Famine - Stalin's War on Ukraine (Paperback)
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List price R461
Loot Price R436
Discovery Miles 4 360
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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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