A review by ubermensch84
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
5.0
When I started this book I tried several times and I could not get into it. Maybe it was more based on my mood at the time because when I returned to it a year later I could not put it down.
Applebaum makes a strong argument that Stalin intentionally starved peasants in an attempt to destroy Ukrainian nationalism (though peasants were starved in other regions of Soviet Union as well). This book provides historical context to the war in Ukraine today and began to fill a large gap of knowledge in my understanding of 20th century history -- especially Ukrainian identity/Ukrainian nationalism.
Applebaum makes a strong argument that Stalin intentionally starved peasants in an attempt to destroy Ukrainian nationalism (though peasants were starved in other regions of Soviet Union as well). This book provides historical context to the war in Ukraine today and began to fill a large gap of knowledge in my understanding of 20th century history -- especially Ukrainian identity/Ukrainian nationalism.