The turn away from economic explanations for Soviet famines
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posted on 2024-06-13, 12:23 authored by SG Wheatcroft© 2018 Cambridge University Press. Anne Appelbaum's work is a very readable and accessible story about the famine. In her own words, her objective was to tell 'what actually happened.Â.Â.Â. What chain of events, and what mentality, led to the famine? Who was responsible?' (xv). Right from the beginning she indicates that she thinks that the famine was the result of someone's mentality, and that her objective is to find who should be blamed for it. Her's is a very simple story. It conforms to an increasingly popular trend in Soviet history to ignore or oversimplify complex economic explanations and to reduce everything to moral judgements.
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Contemporary European historyVolume
27Pagination
465-469Location
Cambridge, Eng.Publisher DOI
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0960-7773eISSN
1469-2171Language
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