Red Famine

In Red Famine, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum explores the horrific consequences of Stalin's agricultural collectivization policy, which led to a devastating famine in the Soviet Union between 1931 and 1933. She argues that over three million Ukrainians did not die as incidental victims of misguided policies, but rather as a result of a deliberate campaign by the Soviet state to eliminate a perceived political threat. Applebaum's compelling narrative reveals the extreme survival struggles of ordinary people amidst extraordinary evil, while drawing parallels to contemporary threats to Ukrainian independence.