PositiveThe Wall Street Journal...a lucid, judicious and powerful book ... Occasionally she over-simplifies. Calling Ukraine a 'Russian colony,' for example, is rather like calling Scotland a colony of England: It implies too stark a divide. Nor does she explore in depth the interplay between the Holodomor and the famines on the Volga, in the North Caucasus and in Kazakhstan ... But overall, the argument that Stalin singled out Ukraine for special punishment is well-made. Ms. Applebaum points to harsher food requisitioning in Ukraine, to the closure of its borders with Russia and Poland, and to the 'black-listing' of hundreds of villages, making it illegal to provide them with manufactured goods, including even kerosene and matches ... What has also resurfaced is the reluctance of even liberal Russians to accept that Ukrainians have their own history and now their own state. Western commentators afflicted with the same mind-set should read this excellent and important book.