Red Famine: Stalin

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine Anne Applebaum


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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine





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 history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them.

Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: after a series of rebellions unsettled the province, Stalin set out to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry. The state sealed the republic’s borders and seized all available food. Starvation set in rapidly, and people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases, they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil.

Today, Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more. Applebaum’s compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the twenty-first.

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Holodomor foi a fome provocada pelo homem que convulsionou a república soviética da Ucrânia de 1932 a 1933, com pico no final da primavera de 1933. Foi parte de uma fome soviética mais ampla (1931-34) que também causou fome em massa nas regiões produtoras de grãos da Rússia Soviética e do Cazaquistão. A fome ucraniana, no entanto, tornou-se mais mortífera por uma série de decretos e decisões políticas que visavam principalmente ou apenas a Ucrânia. Reconhecendo a sua escala, a fome de ... leia mais

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