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4.34 AVERAGE
4.34 AVERAGE
Readable, understandable, accessible. The famine of 1932-33 was horrific and this book does not shy away from it. If you want to know how awful Stalinist policies actually were, start here.
A nice balanced view of the famines in Ukraine in both the early 1920s and early 1930s as well as a chapter at the end discussing the relevance to current world events. Not a difficult read. Well referenced and discusses other books on the subject that represent both sides of the issue.
I will come back to this one someday, but for right now, it's too raw, too difficult.
This is an important book full of history, tragedy, and insight into the impact of the Russia-Ukraine relationship. Most of it is tragic and heartbreaking. Giving g it a 4 out of 5 as the first half is extremely dense and at times very hard to get through. I still recommend it as an important piece of history you may not have heard about much before.
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This book is about a famine. There is not much joy to be found here, but there is a lot of hard truths.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, Death of parent, War
A sobering account of the horrific famine Ukrainians suffered at the hands of Joseph Stalin and his communist minions. Not only did USSR leadership cause the deaths of so many people, but they tried to whitewash the historical account. Truly heartbreaking to learn the depths of suffering those people went through.
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced