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...In narrating Ukraine’s 20th-century past, Hrytsak gives due attention to horrors such as Joseph Stalin’s forced collectivisation of farms, which led to the Holodomor, or famine, of the early 1930s....
...Ritter also has a yen for the 19th-century Orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, whose translations of Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature were devoured by great writers such as Goethe, Hugo and Balzac...
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