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 b...
| Main Author: | Applebaum, Anne, 1964- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Doubleday,
[2017]
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| Physical Description: |
xxx, 461 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm. |
| Edition: | First United States edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the Ukrainian question
- The Ukrainian revolution, 1917
- Rebellion, 1919
- Famine and truce: the 1920s
- The double crisis: 1927-9
- Collectivization: revolution in the countryside, 1930
- Rebellion, 1930
- Collectivization fails, 1931-2
- Famine decisions, 1932: requisitions, blacklists and borders
- Famine decisions, 1932: the end of Ukrainization
- Famine decisions, 1932: the searches and the searchers
- Starvation: spring and summer, 1933
- Survival: spring and summer, 1933
- Aftermath
- The cover-up
- The Holodomor in history and memory
- Epilogue: the Ukraine question reconsidered.