Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine pdf

Anne Applebaum es historiadora y periodista. Es redactora del Atlantic y miembro sénior del Instituto Agora de la Universidad Johns Hopkins. Es autora de varios libros de historia, incluido GULAG, que ganó el premio Pulitzer de no ficción en 2004; EL TELÓN DE HIERRO, sobre la sovietización de Europa del Este después de la guerra, que ganó el Premio Cundill de Literatura Histórica 2013; y HAMBRE ROJA, que comienza con la revolución ucraniana de 1917, termina con la hambruna ucraniana de 1932-33 y proporciona los antecedentes del actual conflicto ruso-ucraniano. Su libro más reciente, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY, examina la atracción de las formas autocráticas de gobierno, especialmente para los intelectuales, en todo el mundo occidental.
Anne ha estado escribiendo sobre Europa del Este y Rusia desde 1989, cuando cubrió el colapso del comunismo en Polonia para la revista The Economist. También ha cubierto la política estadounidense, británica y europea para una amplia gama de publicaciones estadounidenses y británicas. Es ex columnista del Washington Post, ex miembro de la junta editorial del Washington Post y ex editora adjunta de la revista Spectator. Está casada con Radoslaw Sikorski, un político y escritor polaco, y vive en Polonia y Gran Bretaña.

Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine pdf por Anne Applebaum

In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events.
The book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian scholars all over the world. It includes accounts of the famine by those who survived it, describing what human beings can do when driven mad by hunger. It shows how the Soviet state ruthlessly used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other in order to expunge supposedly 'anti-revolutionary' elements. It also records the actions of extraordinary individuals who did all they could to relieve the suffering.
The famine was rapidly followed by an attack on Ukraine's cultural and political leadership - and then by a denial that it had ever happened at all. Census reports were falsified and memory suppressed. Some western journalists shamelessly swallowed the Soviet line; others bravely rejected it, and were undermined and harassed. The Soviet authorities were determined not only that Ukraine should abandon its national aspirations, but that the country's true history should be buried along with its millions of victims. Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and that history. At a moment of crisis between Russia and Ukraine, it also shows how far the present is shaped by the past.