Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine pdf

Anne Applebaum è una storica e giornalista. È una scrittrice di personale per l'Atlantico e Senior Fellow presso l'Agorà Institute, Johns Hopkins University. È autrice di numerosi libri di storia, tra cui GULAG che ha vinto il Premio Pulitzer 2004 per la saggistica; IRON CURTAIN, sulla sovietizzazione dell'Europa orientale dopo la guerra, che ha vinto nel 2013 il Premio Cundill per la letteratura storica; e RED FAMINE, che inizia con la rivoluzione ucraina del 1917, termina con la carestia ucraina del 1932-33 e fa da sfondo all'odierno conflitto russo-ucraino. Il suo ultimo libro, Twilight of Democracy, esamina l'attrazione delle forme di governo autocratiche, specialmente per gli intellettuali, in tutto il mondo occidentale.
Anne scrive di Europa orientale e Russia dal 1989, quando ha seguito il crollo del comunismo in Polonia per la rivista Economist. Si è occupata anche di politica statunitense, britannica ed europea per un'ampia gamma di pubblicazioni americane e britanniche. È un'ex editorialista del Washington Post, ex membro del comitato editoriale del Washington Post ed ex vicedirettore della rivista Spectator. È sposata con Radoslaw Sikorski, politico e scrittore polacco, e vive in Polonia e Gran Bretagna.

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