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Author : Andrea Graziosi
Release : 2016
Genre : Communism
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Book Rating : 470/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Communism and Hunger by : Andrea Graziosi
Download or read book Communism and Hunger written by Andrea Graziosi. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining commonalities and specificities of massive famines produced by the two largest Communist states.
Author : Nick Cullather
Release : 2011-04-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 828/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Hungry World by : Nick Cullather
Download or read book The Hungry World written by Nick Cullather. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. “Where Communism goes, hunger follows” was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by millions. This “green revolution” has been credited with averting Malthusian famines, saving billions of lives, and jump-starting Asia’s economic revival. Bono and Bill Gates hail it as a model for revitalizing Africa’s economy. But this tale of science triumphant conceals a half century of political struggle from the Afghan highlands to the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta, a campaign to transform rural societies by changing the way people eat and grow food. The ambition to lead Asia into an age of plenty grew alongside development theories that targeted hunger as a root cause of war. Scientific agriculture was an instrument for molding peasants into citizens with modern attitudes, loyalties, and reproductive habits. But food policies were as contested then as they are today. While Kennedy and Johnson envisioned Kansas-style agribusiness guarded by strategic hamlets, Indira Gandhi, Marcos, and Suharto inscribed their own visions of progress onto the land. Out of this campaign, the costliest and most sustained effort for development ever undertaken, emerged the struggles for resources and identity that define the region today. As Obama revives the lost arts of Keynesianism and counter-insurgency, the history of these colossal projects reveals bitter and important lessons for today’s missions to feed a hungry world.
Author : Communist Party of Utah
Release : 1930
Genre : Communism
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Book Synopsis United Mass Struggle Against Hunger by : Communist Party of Utah
Download or read book United Mass Struggle Against Hunger written by Communist Party of Utah. This book was released on 1930. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stéphane Courtois
Release : 1999
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Black Book of Communism by : Stéphane Courtois
Download or read book The Black Book of Communism written by Stéphane Courtois. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
Author : Miron Dolot
Release : 2011-02-14
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust by : Miron Dolot
Download or read book Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust written by Miron Dolot. This book was released on 2011-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks. In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine as many as seven million Ukrainians starved to death. This poignant eyewitness account of the Ukrainian famine by one of the survivors relates the young Miron Dolot's day-to-day confrontation with despair and death—his helplessness as friends and family were arrested and abused—and his gradual realization, as he matured, of the absolute control the Soviets had over his life and the lives of his people. But it is also the story of personal dignity in the face of horror and humiliation. And it is an indictment of a chapter in the Soviet past that is still not acknowledged by Russian leaders.
