Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum

3 reviews

kir1072's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Deportation

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cursing, Suicide, Antisemitism, and War

dominicangirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Cannibalism

Moderate: Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Deportation

annikalula's review against another edition

4.5

I usually don't go for books like this but read it for my Abitur (German high school diploma) as I did a project on the Holodomor and its presentation in media. And BOY this was a tough read!!!! I can say quite confidently that I did not enjoy reading this book. Firstly it is a brick of a book filled with information to its last page which makes it quite hard and exhausting to read and secondly deals with awful contents. However Anne Applebaum did her research so well and actually managed to portray the complex historic events in a relatively accessible way. I've also read a variety of other books on the Holodomor and have to say that it was my favorite- also because it was only published quite recently and contents more accurate information than other books.
However this book is SO important!!! Before reading it I've never heard of the Holodomor let alone its brutality. While working in my project and telling people about it I did not come across a single person who knew what the Holodomor was, I even had to explain it to my history teacher. 
So I hope this book gets even more attention that it already got as the Holodomor probably one of the biggest crimes of the 20th century and the education about it is beyond problematic. Please read it!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail