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

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum

496 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative sad slow-paced

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In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European...

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