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 eventsThe book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian scholars all over the world It includes accounts of the famine by those who survived it, describing what human beings can do when driven mad by hunger It shows how the Soviet state ruthlessly used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other in order to expunge supposedly 'anti-revolutionary' elements It also records the actions of extraordinary individuals who did all they could to relieve the sufferingThe famine was rapidly followed by an a