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Author |
: Anne Applebaum |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 587 |
Release |
: 2017-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385538862 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0385538863 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Red Famine by : Anne Applebaum
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more—from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain. "With searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to eradicate 'backwardness' when undertaken by a regime in a state of war with its own people." —The Economist 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. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. 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.
Author |
: Anne Applebaum |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 803 |
Release |
: 2012-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385536431 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0385536437 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iron Curtain by : Anne Applebaum
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.
Author |
: Cormac Ó Gráda |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0691122377 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691122373 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Famine by : Cormac Ó Gráda
History.
Author |
: Sarah Cameron |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2018-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501730450 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501730452 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hungry Steppe by : Sarah Cameron
The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime: the Kazakh famine of 1930–33. More than 1.5 million people, a quarter of Kazakhstan's population, perished. Yet the story of this famine has remained mostly hidden from view. Sarah Cameron reveals this brutal story and its devastating consequences for Kazakh society. Through extremely violent means, the Kazakh famine created Soviet Kazakhstan, a stable territory with clear boundaries that was an integral part of the Soviet economy; and it forged a new Kazakh national identity. But ultimately, Cameron finds, neither Kazakhstan nor Kazakhs themselves integrated into Soviet society the way Moscow intended. The experience of the famine scarred the republic and shaped its transformation into an independent nation in 1991. Cameron examines the Kazakh famine to overturn several assumptions about violence, modernization, and nation-making under Stalin, highlighting the creation of a new Kazakh national identity and how environmental factors shaped Soviet development. Ultimately, The Hungry Steppe depicts the Soviet regime and its disastrous policies in a new and unusual light.
Author |
: Frank Dikötter |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 449 |
Release |
: 2010-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802779281 |
ISBN-13 |
: 080277928X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mao's Great Famine by : Frank Dikötter
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikötter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era." Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of Communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of "one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,"--at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death--but also of "the greatest demolition of real estate in human history," as up to one-third of all housing was turned into rubble). The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful mesghing of exhaustive research in Chinese archives and narrative drive, Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power-the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders-with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
Author |
: Alex de Waal |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2017-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509524709 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509524703 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mass Starvation by : Alex de Waal
The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon. Hard-hitting and deeply informed, Mass Starvation explains why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.
Author |
: Douglas Tottle |
Publisher |
: Progress Books |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780919396517 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0919396518 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fraud, Famine and Fascism by : Douglas Tottle
Argues that charges of a deliberate Soviet policy of genocide by famine directed against the Ukrainian nation in the early 1930s are based on inflated figures and fabricated evidence. This campaign was initiated by extreme right-wing forces in the USA and Nazi propagandists, and has continued since the 1950s by Ukrainian emigre organizations. Some writers have accused the Jews and "Stalin's Jewish government" of deliberately causing the famine. Ch. 9 (pp. 102-119), "Collaboration and Collusion, " discusses Ukrainian nationalist involvement in pogroms and assistance to the Germans during the Holocaust, particularly the faction led by Stepan Bandera and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. also describes how ex-members of these groups and of Ukrainian Waffen-SS units were enabled to enter the USA and Canada after the war.
Author |
: Laura Engelstein |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 866 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199794218 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199794219 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Russia in Flames by : Laura Engelstein
Laura Engelstein, one of the greatest scholars of Russian history, has written a searing and defining account of the Russian Revolution, the fall of the old order, and the creation of the Soviet state.
Author |
: Dawit Wolde Giorgis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015018316904 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Red Tears by : Dawit Wolde Giorgis
War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia.
Author |
: Anne Applebaum |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2017-06-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525433194 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525433198 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Between East and West by : Anne Applebaum
In 1991, Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag, Iron Curtain and Red Famine, took a three-month road trip through the borderlands between the fallen Soviet Union and Europe—lands that became Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova. In her iconic reportage, which has become indispensable history, she captures the harrowing story of a region that is once again threatened by Russia. An extraordinary journey into the past and present of the lands east of Poland and west of Russia—an area defined throughout its history by colliding empires. Traveling from the former Soviet naval center of Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Black Sea port of Odessa, Anne Applebaum encounters a rich range of competing cultures, religions, and national aspirations. In reasserting their heritage, the inhabitants of the borderlands attempt to build a future grounded in their fractured ancestral legacies. In the process, neighbors unearth old conflicts, devote themselves to recovering lost culture, and piece together competing legends to create a new tradition. Rich in surprising encounters and vivid characters, Between East and West brilliantly illuminates the soul of the borderlands and the shaping power of the past.