{"product_id":"red-famine-stalins-war-on-ukraine-9780804170888","title":"Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine","description":"\u003cb\u003eAN \u003ci\u003eECONOMIST\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eGulag\u003c\/i\u003e and the National Book Award finalist \u003ci\u003eIron Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes--the consequences of which still resonate today \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eRed Famine\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. Devastating and definitive, \u003ci\u003eRed Famine\u003c\/i\u003e captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday, Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more. Applebaum's compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the twenty-first.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804170888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.30d","brand":"Anne Applebaum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643763912860,"sku":"9780804170888","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_301c875c-dc9b-492f-88b5-6e5365d7f5db.jpg?v=1603857227","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/red-famine-stalins-war-on-ukraine-9780804170888","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}