Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizes
In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having  been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating  episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented  authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened,  who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest  account yet published of these terrible events.
The book draws on  a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony only available  since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian  scholars all over the world. It includes accounts of the famine by those  who survived it, describing what human beings can do when driven mad by  hunger. It shows how the Soviet state ruthlessly used propaganda to  turn neighbours against each other in order to expunge supposedly  'anti-revolutionary' elements. It also records the actions of  extraordinary individuals who did all they could to relieve the  suffering.
The famine was rapidly followed by an attack on  Ukraine's cultural and political leadership - and then by a denial that  it had ever happened at all. Census reports were falsified and memory  suppressed. Some western journalists shamelessly swallowed the Soviet  line; others bravely rejected it, and were undermined and harassed. The  Soviet authorities were determined not only that Ukraine should abandon  its national aspirations, but that the country's true history should be  buried along with its millions of victims. Red Famine, a triumph  of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of  those memories and that history. At a moment of crisis between Russia  and Ukraine, it also shows how far the present is shaped by the past.



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