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From the writer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the Country wide Book Prize finalist Flat iron Drape, a revelatory record of one of Stalin's best crimes - the results which still resonate today. In 1929 Stalin launched his insurance policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect another Russian Revolution - which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The effect was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in Western european record. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But rather than sending comfort, the Soviet express made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of the politics problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those useless were Ukrainians who perished not because these were accidental victims of the bad insurance policy but because their state deliberately attempt to kill them. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: After some rebellions unsettled the province, Stalin attempt to ruin the Ukrainian peasantry. The state of hawaii sealed the republic's edges and seized all available food. Starvation set in quickly, and folks ate anything: lawn, tree bark, pet dogs, corpses. In some instances they killed each other for food. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine catches the horror of standard people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. Today, Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, has put Ukrainian self-reliance in its places once more. Applebaum's compulsive narrative recalls one of the most severe crimes of the 20th century and shows how it may foreshadow a new risk to the politics order in the 21st.

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