One of the major history books of the autumn, by one of the world's most celebrated historians.
Anne Applebaum is a historian and journalist. She is the author of several books, including Gulag- A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and the Duff Cooper Prize, and Iron Curtain, which in 2013 won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. She is Professor of Practice at the Institute for Global Affairs, LSE and she divides her time between Britain and Poland.
Anne Applebaum's Red Famine - powerful, relentless,
shocking, compelling - will cement her deserved reputation as the
leading historian of Soviet crimes. -- Daniel Finkelstein * The
Times *
Magisterial and heartbreaking -- Simon Sebag Montefiore * Evening
Standard *
It remains a tragedy too little known. Applebaum's book, compelling
in its detail and in its empathy with those who suffered, will do
much to remedy that ignorance and to place the current crises and
confrontations in Ukraine into a longer historical context -- Nick
Rennison * The Sunday Times *
A vivid and informative account of the Ukrainian famine -- Sheila
Fitzpatrick * Guardian *
Anne Applebaum has written an exhaustive, authoritative and
eloquent book. She deals with questions that have hitherto lacked
unequivocal answers -- Donald Rayfield * Literary Review *
Red Famine, superbly researched and written, shows how blind
adherence to ideology can bring murder most foul -- Ian Thomson *
Tablet *
Applebaum has painstakingly mined a vast array of sources, many of
which were not available when the historian Robert Conquest wrote
his pioneering history -- Adam Hochschild * The New York Times
*
What has come to light, and what Ms Applebaum synthesises in lucid
and vigorous prose, is a devastating circumstantial case. Red
Famine presents a Bolshevik government so hell-bent on
extracting wealth and controlling labour that it was willing to
confiscate the last remaining grain from hungry peasants (mostly
but not exclusively in Ukraine) and then block them from fleeing
famine-afflicted areas to search for food * Economist *
Her account will surely become the standard treatment of one of
history's great political atrocities. ... Russians of today can
decide whether they wish to accept a Stalinist version of the past.
But to have that choice, they need a sense of the history. This is
one more reason to be grateful for this remarkable book. -- Timothy
Snyder * Washington Post *
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