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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
Heartbreaking from beginning to end. The amount of suffering inflicted is astounding. Such an important bearing witness.
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
dark
medium-paced
Man's inhumanity to man knows no bounds. The paranoia and power-hunger of Stalin's USSR used a systematic approach to annihilating Ukrainian farmers in the early 1930s as the collectivization of the "breadbasket of Europe" failed miserably. Ukrainian farmers were an independent lot, and the Soviets could not tolerate this. Thus the imposed famine that killed 7 million Ukrainian farmers and their families in a matter of two years. A survivor's tale tells all about the death of his village.
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
I read this in college, and the professor did not grade us on our reading response that week, because it's hard to evaluate someone's emotional reaction to intentional starvation, probably cannibalism, and general Stalinist horror. For the same reason, I'm not giving this book a star rating, but I will say it's stuck with me for over 30 years.