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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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Journal

Contemporary European history

Volume

27

Pagination

465-469

Location

Cambridge, Eng.

Open access

  • Yes

ISSN

0960-7773

eISSN

1469-2171

Language

eng

Publication classification

C2 Other contribution to refereed journal

Copyright notice

2018, Cambridge University Press

Issue

3

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

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