The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in Global and Historical Perspective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230613331)

This book illuminates a little-known but tremendously significant twentieth-century crisis in the Soviet Union. Drawing on archival materials declassified since the fall of communism, Nicholas Ganson situates the famine of 1946-47 at the crossroads of Soviet social and political history, World War II, the Cold War, ideology, and famine in the modern world. He sheds light on the perspectives of Soviet elites and gives voice to the famine s victims. In revealing the multi-causality of the postwar hunger, this ambitious work challenges the received wisdom about the relationship between politics and famine.

Author: N. Ganson
ISBN-10: 0230613330
ISBN-13: 9780230613331
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2009
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 05/29/2009 pg. 18