'Red Famine' chronicles the ruin wrought upon Ukraine by Josef Stalin
The appropriately ominous term for the subject of Anne Applebaum's new book is . It's “a term derived from the Ukrainian words for hunger – – and extermination – ,” and it's also a description of the horrifying events that took place in Ukraine between 1932 and 1933, when state-mandated famine stalked every city and town in the country and the state's agents were often spurred by their own hunger. “At the height of the crisis,” Applebaum writes, “organized teams of policemen and
