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"Currently she is a professor in practice at the LSE’s Institute of Global Affairs specialising in 21st century propaganda and disinformation, a subject she knows from both sides, having been involved in the mid-1990s in the Spectator’s exposé of Guardian journalist Richard Gott for KGB connections and, in 2014, and having been herself targeted by what she describes as a Russian social media “smear” campaign." Anyone know what this was about? it's the first I've heard of it. On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > > Applebaum has, of course, more material at her disposal than Conquest had, > including large numbers of Ukrainian famine memoirs. Many of these are > published by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, which has an > obvious political agenda, but she is by no means offering an uncritical > “Ukrainian” account of the famine. Though sympathetic to the sentiments > behind it, she ultimately doesn’t buy the Ukrainian argument that Holodomor > was an act of genocide. Her estimate of famine losses in Ukraine – 4.5 > million people – reflects current scholarship. Her take on Stalin’s > intentions comes closer than I would to seeing him as specifically out to > kill Ukrainians, but this is a legitimate difference of interpretation. For > scholars, the most interesting part of the book will be the two excellent > historiographical chapters in which she teases out the political and > scholarly impulses tending to minimise the famine in Soviet times (“The > Cover-Up”) and does the same for post-Soviet Ukrainian exploitation of the > issue (“The Holodomor in History and Memory”). > > full: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/25/red-famine-sta > lins-war-on-ukraine-anne-applebaum-review _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
