Reviews tagging 'Animal death'
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933 by Anne Applebaum
3 reviews
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.
Graphic: Death of parent, Cannibalism, Death, and Torture
Moderate: War and Xenophobia
Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death
xhelat's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
4.75
Graphic: Classism, Miscarriage, War, Animal death, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Antisemitism, Body horror, Genocide, Murder, Violence, and Xenophobia
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!!
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!!
Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Antisemitism, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and War
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