In the early 1930s Stalin orchestrated a famine to suppress the nationalist movement in Ukraine, and strengthen Russian influence. Millions of people died. Anne Applebaum says, “so much of why the Ukrainian famine was possible was because of the way in which the Soviet Union used disinformation, propaganda, and what we would now call hate speech to encourage people to do terrible things.” Her book is ‘The Red Famine.’ Applebaum also discusses Russian interference in recent elections. Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the short story collection ‘The Obama Inheritance.’