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Red Famine
by Anne Applebaum
Stalin's war on Ukraine, 1932–33: the engineered famine that killed nearly four million, and its denial. Definitive and relevant.
Read it if…
you want to understand the Holodomor and today's Ukraine.
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Skip it if…
you want a short read.
Try instead: Gulag: A History →
Three things you will actually use
- Famine was policy.
- Denial is part of the crime.
- History explains the present war.
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Read the chapters on 1933.
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Applebaum's Red Famine.
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