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The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine , Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. Applebaum’s compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the twenty-first.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780804170888","publication_date":"20180904","publisher":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","slug":"red-famine","subtitle":"Stalin's War on Ukraine","title":"Red Famine"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"HIS010010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Eastern European History","score":0.7302,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004240","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Russian Lit Crit","score":0.7056,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS032020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Soviet-Era Russia","score":0.6955,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"HIS010010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Eastern European History","score":0.7302,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004240","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Russian Lit Crit","score":0.7056,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS032020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Soviet-Era Russia","score":0.6955,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"HIS010010","confidence_band":"high","label":"Eastern European History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS032000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Russian History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS037070","confidence_band":"high","label":"20th-Century History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Eastern European History","score":0.7302,"slug":"eastern-european-history"},{"label":"Russian Lit Crit","score":0.7056,"slug":"russian-lit-crit"},{"label":"Soviet-Era Russia","score":0.6955,"slug":"soviet-era-russia"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in the Ukrainian famine under Stalin","Readers of histories of Soviet collectivization and political violence"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Anne Applebaum"],"book_id":"9781400034093","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781400034093.jpg?v=f1621a9782e1845b","score":0.7777,"title":"Gulag","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781400034093"},{"authors":["Timothy Snyder"],"book_id":"9781541600065","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781541600065.jpg?v=11c09229a834756d","score":0.7396,"title":"Bloodlands","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781541600065"},{"authors":["Rory Finnin"],"book_id":"9781487558253","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781487558253.jpg?v=0f0390b747c581cf","score":0.7069,"title":"Blood of Others","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781487558253"},{"authors":["Jozef Czapski"],"book_id":"9781681372563","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781681372563.jpg?v=7a13fdf883e0060e","score":0.6711,"title":"Inhuman Land","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781681372563"},{"authors":["Serhii Plokhy"],"book_id":"9781541617070","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781541617070.jpg?v=135e03a57d2d620b","score":0.6702,"title":"Chernobyl","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781541617070"},{"authors":["Stanislav Aseyev"],"book_id":"9780674268784","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780674268784.jpg?v=2482de30f480a48b","score":0.6695,"title":"In Isolation","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780674268784"},{"authors":["Stephen Kotkin","Paul Hecht","Recorded Books","& 0 more"],"book_id":"9780143127864","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780143127864.jpg?v=9779e1cf6461e875","score":0.6627,"title":"Stalin","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780143127864"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:russian history books"],"label":"History","score":0.4536,"slug":"history"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:new york times best sellers"],"label":"Best","score":0.1119,"slug":"best"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:world history"],"label":"World","score":0.0848,"slug":"world"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:halloween history"],"label":"Halloween","score":0.047,"slug":"halloween"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:survival"],"label":"Survival","score":0.026,"slug":"survival"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: The Ukrainian famine, Forced agricultural collectivization, State violence against Ukrainians.","Themes: History, Halloween, Survival.","Reading lane: Eastern European History and Russian Lit Crit."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.88,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["Readers interested in the Ukrainian famine under Stalin","Readers of histories of Soviet collectivization and political violence"],"themes":["The Ukrainian famine","Forced agricultural collectivization","State violence against Ukrainians"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":2176,"goodreads_ratings_count":9501,"goodreads_reviews_count":1237,"quality_score":0.9792}}