{"product_id":"red-famine-stalins-war-on-ukraine","title":"Red Famine Stalin's War on Ukraine","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eGulag\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIron Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, a revelatory history of Stalin's greatest crime.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 perished between 1931 and 1933 in the U.S.S.R. In \u003ci\u003eRed Famine\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne Applebaum reveals for the first time that three million of them died not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy, but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: that Stalin set out to exterminate a vast swath of the Ukrainian population and replace them with more cooperative, Russian-speaking peasants. A peaceful Ukraine would provide the Soviets with a safe buffer between itself and Europe, and would be a bread basket region to feed Soviet cities and factory workers. \u003cbr\u003e     When the province rebelled against collectivization, Stalin sealed the borders and began systematic food seizures. Starving, people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil.","brand":"National Geographic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55836316368969,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0956\/5336\/3785\/files\/13678293482462.jpg?v=1784655920","url":"https:\/\/morebetterbooks.com\/products\/red-famine-stalins-war-on-ukraine","provider":"More Better Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}