Red famine : Stalin's war on Ukraine
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Published
New York : Doubleday, [2017].
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction
947.70842
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947.70842
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Published
New York : Doubleday, [2017].
Format
Book
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-434) and index.
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"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 ..."--Provided by publisher.
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