Red Famine
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| Preceded by | From a Polish Country House Kitchen | |
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| Followed by | Twilight of Democracy | |
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine is a 2017 non-fiction book by Anne Applebaum, focusing on the history of the Holodomor.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The book won the Lionel Gelber Prize[8] and the Duff Cooper Prize.[9]
The book received a number of positive reviews from the mainstream Western press, such as The New York Times[10] and The Guardian;[11] however, there were also negative reviews by some academics.[12][13]
Reviews
Stephen G. Wheatcroft writing for Contemporary European History, states that, right from the beginning, Applebaum indicates that she thinks that the famine was a result of someone's mentality and her objective is to find out who to blame for it. Wheatcroft says that her view conforms to "an increasingly popular trend in Soviet history to ignore or oversimplify complex economic explanations and to reduce everything to moral judgments". He additionally criticized Applebaum for her treatment of grain availability in Ukraine, which, according to Wheatcroft "epitomizes the dangers of misunderstanding the [archival] data" and for other "factual[ly] incorrect" information.[12]
In writing for the History News Network, Mark Tauger criticized Applebaum's usage of Ukrainian nationalist arguments, which stressed the distinction between Russian and Ukrainian cultures and farming methods, while downplaying Stalin's simultaneous purges against Russian intellectuals and famines in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Tauger concluded that "it leaves out too much important information, has false claims on key points, and draws unjustified conclusions on important issues based on incomplete use of sources, making it not even close to the level of genuine scholarship".[13]
Christopher Gilley states that "the treatment of the famine itself ... is moving and largely convincing", but that "the book’s weakness is the historical framework into which Applebaum seeks to place the events", which suffers from "nationally centered narratives".[14]
Bibliography
- Applebaum, Anne (2017), Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover ed.), ISBN 978-0-241-00380-0
- Applebaum, Anne (2017), Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover ed.), ISBN 978-0-385-53885-5
- Applebaum, Anne (2018), Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Paperback ed.), ISBN 978-0-14-197828-4
- Applebaum, Anne (2018), Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Paperback ed.), Anchor Books, ISBN 978-0-8041-7088-8
See also
References
- ^ S2CID 54880488.
- ISSN 1911-0359.
- S2CID 165926054.
- ^ Onaciu, Vlad (2018-05-09). "Book review: red famine: Stalin's war on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum". LSE Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
- ^ "Anne Applebaum. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. (Book Review)". Forum For Ukrainian Studies. 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
- ISSN 2083-7372.
- ISSN 1503-2086.
- ^ Prize, The Lionel Gelber. "Anne Applebaum's Red Famine Wins the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize". www.newswire.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
- ^ "Past Winners of The Duff Cooper Prize - The Duff Cooper Prize". www.theduffcooperprize.org. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
- ^ Snyder, Timothy. "The deliberate starvation of millions in Ukraine". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ Fitzpatrick, Sheila. "Red Famine by Anne Applebaum review – did Stalin deliberately let Ukraine starve?". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
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- ^ a b Tauger, Mark (1 July 2018). "Review of Anne Applebaum's "Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine"". History News Network.
- ^ Gilley, Christopher: review of 'Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine', Reviews in History, November 2017
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