Amid the deluge of Communist-related media content expected to come this fall on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the audience is unlikely to see a serious analysis of Ukraine's 1917-21 statehood bid and its considerable relevance to the geopolitical tensions of today, Peter Dickinson wrote for the Atlantic Council.
A new book called Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, by Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist Anne Applebaum, delivers more information and more insights into the dark chapter of 1930s when Joseph Stalin committed crimes against humanity by purposely starving to death more than four million Ukrainians for resisting his Five-Year Plan to collectivize agriculture.