ANNE APPLEBAUM is a columnist for The Washington Post, a Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics, and a contributor to The New York Review of Books. Her previous books include Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, and Gulag, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and a finalist for three other major prizes. She lives in Poland with her husband, Radek Sikorski, a Polish politician, and their two children.
"Applebaum's account will surely become the standard treatment of
one of history's great political atrocities . . . She re-creates a
pastoral world so we can view its destruction. And she rightly
insists that the deliberate starvation of the Ukrainian peasants
was part of a larger [Soviet] policy against the Ukrainian nation .
. . To be sure, Russia is not the Soviet Union, and Russians of
today can decide whether they wish to accept a Stalinist version of
the past. But to have that choice, they need a sense of the
history. This is one more reason to be grateful for this remarkable
book."
--Timothy Snyder, Washington Post "Lucid, judicious and powerful .
. . The argument that Stalin singled out Ukraine for special
punishment is well-made . . . [An] excellent and important
book."
--Anna Reid, Wall Street Journal "Applebaum chronicles in almost
unbearably intimate detail the ruin wrought upon Ukraine by Josef
Stalin and the Soviet state apparatus he had built on suspicion,
paranoia, and fear . . . Applebaum gives a chorus of contemporary
voices to the tale, and her book is written in the light of later
history, with the fate of Ukraine once again in the international
spotlight and Ukrainians realizing with newly-relevant intensity
that, as Red Famine reminds us, 'History offers hope as well as
tragedy.'"
--Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor "A magisterial and
heartbreaking history of Stalin's Ukrainian famine."
--Simon Sebag Montefiore, London Evening Standard "Powerful . . .
War, as Carl von Clausewitz famously put it, is the continuation of
politics by other means. The politics in this case was the
Sovietisation of Ukraine; the means was starvation. Food supply was
not mismanaged by Utopian dreamers. It was weaponised . . . With
searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences
of a campaign to eradicate 'backwardness' when undertaken by a
regime in a state of war with its own people."
--The Economist "Anne Applebaum's Red Famine--powerful, relentless,
shocking, compelling--will cement her deserved reputation as the
leading historian of Soviet crimes."
--Daniel Finkelstein, The Times (London) "Chilling, dramatic . . .
In her detailed, well-rendered narrative, Applebaum provides a
'crucial backstory' for understanding current relations between
Russia and Ukraine. An authoritative history of national strife
from a highly knowledgeable guide."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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