Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933 by Anne Applebaum

5 reviews

leelulah's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

It felt a bit dense at first, but thrn it gained momentum.  Its so sad that in the end the USSR got its way even after WWII. The denial narrative, the accusations of fanatical nationalism and Nazism against Ukraine, while Nazis planned to do the exact same, and there were Ukrainian soldiers in the troops that helped defeat Hitler are ridiculous. They, the USSR,  even got away with reshaping the definition of genocide so that they wouldn't get accused of it.
Memory eternal to all victims, dissidents and truth bearers who dared to speak out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Genocide, Mental illness, Deportation, Hate crime, Torture, Colonisation, War, Xenophobia, Chronic illness, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, and Eating disorder

hanna's review

dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

This was such an important read for me and I learned so much about Ukrainian history and especially about how the USSR interacted with other countries during the 20th century. 

I'm German, so I'm used to seeing only one rhetoric (one that acknowledges the USSR had issues but none as bad as Germany) and this was a really interesting different perspective. 

The way Applebaum uses her sources is something I can only aspire to as a history student. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cannibalism, Death, and Torture

Moderate: War and Xenophobia

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

dominicangirl's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism and Genocide

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

xhelat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Miscarriage, War, Animal death, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Antisemitism, Body horror, Genocide, Murder, Violence, and Xenophobia

srm's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Xenophobia, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Cannibalism, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Torture

Minor: Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, and Racial slurs