Jennifer Jelinkova | Ukrainian History & the Holodomor @InsertLiteraryPunHere | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
An overview of Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum

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Timothy Snyder discusses Ukraine on Ezra Klein's podcast: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/timothy-snyder-on-the-myths-that-blinded-the-west/id1548604447?i=1000554066715


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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