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The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in Global and Historical Perspective
Nicholas Ganson
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Description for The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in Global and Historical Perspective
Hardcover. This book deals with the long overlooked and understudied Soviet famine of 1946-47, which came on the heels of World War II and at the dawn of the Cold War and killed as many as two million people. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230613331
SKU
V9780230613331
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About Nicholas Ganson
NICHOLAS GANSON is a Visiting Adjunct Professor of History at Virginia Tech, USA.
Reviews for The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in Global and Historical Perspective
"The story of the 1946-47 Soviet famine has largely been ignored by historians and economists and this is the first major account of the event in English by a Western scholar. Nicholas Ganson has meticulously pieced together archival evidence as well as previously published material to describe and analyze the causes and consequences of the famine. A generally illuminating account ... Read more