Ukrainian History & the Holodomor
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- An overview of Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
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00:00 Introduction
01:02 Why I read this book (on Bloodlands & centering Eastern Europe)
03:00 Applebaum's thesis
03:18 Background geography & history
05:02 The Russian Revolution & Ukrainian uprisings
08:30 The USSR & "Ukrainization"
09:20 Diversity within Ukraine - urban vs. rural
10:13 Stalin & colonizing the peasantry
10:53 Collectivization (a disaster)
12:31 "Kulaks'
13:33 The purging of Ukrainian intellectuals
14:31 The decisions leading to the crisis
16:43 Starvation & cannibalism
17:24 The reaction in the cities
17:57 The international cover-up
20:28 Oral tradition & "genocide"
21:10 What is a nation?
22:06 Closing 
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Here from KDBooks and WOW, I’ve had this book on my TBR for a bit and hearing you talk about it brought it right back to the forefront. Amazing review!
I've been a follower of yours since 2018 and as a Ukrainian, I am glad that important topics such as Holodomor are being discussed more widely, albeit under these grim circumstances. I know that for a lot of my fellow Ukrainians Holodomor is still a source of generational trauma. It is worth noting that Russia still doesn't recognize Holodomor to be a genocide.
I want to bring up a different issue that has been long overdue. I watch a lot of booktubers from the West and I'm always surprised at how popular Russian literature is among many Westerners. It seems that whenever Eastern European literature is discussed, the conversation always lands on Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. Many Westerners can easily name at least two Tolstoy novels, but from my experience struggle to name at least one Ukrainian author. Has the nation of 40 million struggled to produce at least one notable writer? Or have centuries of oppression and erasure of Ukrainian culture simply gone unchecked? It seems that many in the West are just silent accomplices of Russia systematically erasing and appropriating many cultures, including Ukrainian. Russian literature in fact has been used as a tool to further Russian expansionist imperialist ideas. I think it is finally time that many in the West finally examine how and why those ideas were allowed to live so long completely unchecked. I recommend an article published by tuzhden ua on April 1st titled "“This War was Unavoidable”: Russian Colonialism and the Self-Deception of the West" as a starting point. Here is a quote: "...culture is not just a phenomenon detached from real life and does not exist in some vacuum. Culture is something that forms the system of values, some coordinate system. In the Russian system, Ukrainians played the role of a dummy inhabitants of the western edge of the empire. “Little brothers” who, if necessary, must be returned to the right path. Hand in hand, Russian imperialist policies and colonial culture have shaped a society full of contempt for Ukrainians, including the belief that Ukraine belongs to them."
Pillow screams, indeed. Thank you for making this video. xx
I finished this book today. It was really impressive and your video is an excellent introduction to it.
Many of the archives used to enable the research that made this book possible are Ukrainian archives, I think Applebaum mentions this in the beginning, which were opened and accesible during the last decades and could be used by domestic and foreign researches and academics. Russian archives about the Soviet period were long closed, then partly opened a bit to be used by Russian as well as international scholars and by now probably all closed again. Yesterday I heard one of my former professors on the radio talking about how this war in Ukraine right now threatens and destroys many archives in the Ukraine. Valuable sources to shed light on history and Ukraine as a nation in whichever form being erased in this war can hardly be just a side effect, I think.
wow, phenomenal overview and review. I've had this on hold for ages from my little small-town library.
Wow, this is an inspired review. Genuinely fantastic. Thank you for this!
An awesome deep dive! Really appreciate the thought and effort you put into this video.
I cannot wait to pick this one up! I've been waiting on Libby for it and it currently has sooo many holds (which makes me happy because that means people are reading it right now)! Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this.
I passed this one over at the bookstore the other day figuring I'd eventually get a copy. I'm definitely going back for it now.
AHHHHHHH *pillow scream* thanks for the informative video. I will definitely read Red Famine once my blood pressure goes down and I'm less triggerable.
Thank you for that fascinating recommendation. I hadn’t heard of this before and I will be giving it a look
🙏 great review of the great book. I’ve learned a lot from it even though I had History of Ukraine for 5 years in school
Just ordered the two books 📚 from my library 📚 so when I get them I will read them and watch your amazing video as I no it will be love your amazing channel please stay safe and enjoy your reading love your Australia fan John xxx
Thank you for this very good content ❤
Thank you for this review!
Thanks for the in-depth review... I think you hinted a while back that this one was underway so I've been awaiting it! I read Red Famine a year or two ago, and it was scary just how little there was to find on RUclips about the Holodomor when I searched around after I finished. (A lecture by Timothy Snyder was one of the few, although it's encouraging now to see quite a few new resources and interviews have been posted since.) I'd also forgotten how interesting / frustrating that last part was, about the cover-up and the pressure placed on journalists to avoid talking about it in order to keep access to Moscow. I still have to check out Bloodlands though, so thanks for mentioning that one again and how it relates to everything here.
Wonderful review. I am thrilled to watch your review Rahul Mate India
Thanks for this excellent synopsis of “Red Famine”. I have been interested in this book since I saw it mentioned a few days ago when when Anne Applebaum was being interviewed on Amanpour & Co.
There's so much parallels between Ireland's treatment by England/Britain throughout history (and arguably up to today, particularly in relation to the North of Ireland) and Russia's treatment of Ukraine.
This book is amazing! Now, stop reading this comment, and start reading Red Famine.
I finished Red Famine last week and you gave an excellent summary of it. It's definitely a must read book. Thank you for talking about Bloodlands. I will check it out. Along with Red Famine I read Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages which is a novel which explores the effects of collectivization. Difficult but powerful book.
Thank you that was really interesting.
Great video, thank you.
Love the summary breakdown of non fiction books!
Thank you 💗
Timely!
You're a good teacher! I learned a lot in this tight little timeframe. The whole Russian history is so utterly mad. Like I commented on your last video, I'm reading Gulag: a History by Applebaum, so I share your appreciation of Applebaum and, as a consequence of reading that book, a little bit of this information sounded familiar. The Kulaks didn't even need to be rich to qualify as a kulak and be arrested and or/be robbed of their possessions, they could be quite poor. There is so little consistency or logic, Stalin's regime was simply cruel and that was it. Sounds like your pillow was put to good use. Looking forward to next time, as always.
Thank you, I'm a big fan of Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder, I'll definitely take a look at this.
Ha! My library hold of this just came in today, so I just started the audio book of this.
I read Bloodlands in November and Red Famine in January, I am so glad I read both when I did.
Thank you so much for this explanation of this moment in Ukranian history. I like to think I know a lot about Soviet history but I am only realizing in the past month or so how I know almost nothing about Ukraine. I absolutely will be picking this book up.
you should watch the documentary Roses Have thorns by Watchdog Media and follow the channel The Grayzone
Both of these books are on my list but I'm not going to read anytime soon. I learned enough of my country's history in Ukrainian school about Holodomor to last me for now. Angry and beyond sad most days nowadays so I'll put it off for now. Thank you for the summary.
I'm sorry 💔
In one of Jennifer Brooks last vids she mentioned your channel and I'm so glad I followed her direction. I absolutely love your book reviews and can't wait to read this one. You might be interested in some of Ruta Sepetys novels. She has written some brilliant Historical Fiction on the history of the Ukraine and Russia. My heart breaks for the people of Ukraine 🇺🇦
I'm so surprised and moved to hear that. I loved Jennifer's channel but missed that video where she mentioned me. And Ruta Sepetys is definitely on my list (I'm also Lithuanian-American!) but I've still never read her, so I appreciate the reminder. Nice to have you here--I don't do as many book recommendation videos anymore, but hope to get back in the swing of things once I graduate later in the year
I'll see if I can find it for you and send you the link.
@@InsertLiteraryPunHere Found it! In Jennifer's 24 Books in 2024 a little after 5:30 when she intro's the book The Door.
Both excellent books! Read Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Definitely interested in Red Famine
I suggest you to listen to Michel Chossudowsky and the channel The Grayzone
Hello 👋
Please share link of your Goodreads profile
It’s in the video description
Irish famine they told us was because of potatoes crop failing, in fact it is not at all like this, the english empire did it.
You are gorgeous
Not “their government” - but by the Moscowites government (or how they call themselves with a fake name - “rossiyans”, “russians”, “Soviets”)…
Read the book. It was incredible. I wanted to read another one of her books but made the mistake of reading her Twitter feed. It immediately put me off her. She wrote a book on the history of Stalin's terror on Ukraine using tactics that lead to the death of millions of Ukrainians. Applebaum is a follower of the same Stalinist tactics but this time applying them to anybody who voted for Trump, worked in the Trump administration, or anybody won't agree or go along with the anti-Trump gang. The book was shocking but discovering that Applebaum subscribed to Stalinist tactics...didn't see that one coming! First book and last book I've read from Applebaum.
Absolute lies. Go read Grover Furr