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A devastating challenge to the idea of communism as a 'great leveller'

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In this uproarious tale

Red Famine by Anne Applebaum xmas24classiclit the impossible reforms of theWinner 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