Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine pdf

Anne Applebaum est historienne et journaliste. Elle est rédactrice pour l'Atlantique et chercheuse principale à l'Institut Agora de l'Université Johns Hopkins. Elle est l'auteur de plusieurs livres d'histoire, dont GULAG qui a remporté le prix Pulitzer 2004 pour la non-fiction ; IRON CURTAIN, sur la soviétisation de l'Europe de l'Est après la guerre, qui a remporté le prix Cundill de littérature historique 2013 ; et RED FAMINE, qui commence avec la révolution ukrainienne de 1917, se termine avec la famine ukrainienne de 1932-33 et fournit la toile de fond du conflit russo-ukrainien d'aujourd'hui. Son dernier livre, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY, examine l'attrait des formes de gouvernement autocratiques, en particulier pour les intellectuels, dans tout le monde occidental.
Anne écrit sur l'Europe de l'Est et la Russie depuis 1989, lorsqu'elle a couvert l'effondrement du communisme en Pologne pour le magazine Economist. Elle a également couvert la politique américaine, britannique et européenne pour un large éventail de publications américaines et britanniques. Elle est une ancienne chroniqueuse du Washington Post, un ancien membre du comité de rédaction du Washington Post et un ancien rédacteur en chef adjoint du magazine Spectator. Elle est mariée à Radoslaw Sikorski, homme politique et écrivain polonais, et vit en Pologne et en Grande-Bretagne.

Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine pdf par 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.