Stalin's Malicious Famine

Famine devastated Ukraine in the 1930s not merely as the result of terrible policy, but out of political malice.

Anne Applebaum explores the history in Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. She examines the years leading up to the famine, the Bolsheviks’ disdain for peasants and Ukrainians in particular, the efforts to destroy Ukraine’s intellectual class…