@article{Hordijk_2019, title={Anne Applebaum’s <i>Red Famine</i> (2017): Book Review}, url={https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/5021}, DOI={10.7557/13.5021}, abstractNote={&lt;p&gt;The theme setting and particular relevance of artificial or man-made famines seems to come up in intervals, when tensions re-arise between ‘Western’ powers and Russia and seems to be useful for the purposes of ‘demonizing’ ‘Putin’—the current President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin (2000–2008; 2012–)—, ‘the Kremlin’, the Russian government; or simply &lt;strong&gt;‘Russia’&lt;/strong&gt; in the eyes of ‘the West’. In recent years, the famine of 1932–1933 has reached new heights as a politicized event to be instrumentalized in a ‘memory war’ on many discursive levels (history, mass media, memorialization, etc.) between key-representatives of the current countries Ukraine and Russia (Hordijk 2018). This should, symptomatically, remind us of the sheer power that media narratives have in shaping public imaginations.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The reviewed book:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Anne Elizabeth Applebaum. &lt;em&gt;Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine&lt;/em&gt;. ISBN-13: 978–0–241–00380–0. London: Allen Lane, September 2017. Hardcover; 512 pages; recommended retail price: £25.00.&lt;/p&gt;}, number={42}, journal={Nordlit}, author={Hordijk, Frank}, year={2019}, month={Nov.}, pages={381–390} }