The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in Global and Historical Perspective
The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in Global and Historical Perspective

Author: N. Ganson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-04-27

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0230620965

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This book illuminates a little-known but tremendously significant twentieth-century crisis in the Soviet Union. Drawing on archival materials declassified since the fall of communism, Nicholas Ganson situates the famine of 1946-47 at the crossroads of Soviet social and political history, World War II, the Cold War, ideology, and famine in the modern world. He sheds light on the perspectives of Soviet elites and gives voice to the famine s victims. In revealing the multi-causality of the postwar hunger, this ambitious work challenges the received wisdom about the relationship between politics and famine.

In the Track of the Russian Famine
In the Track of the Russian Famine

Author: Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing

Published: 2009-04-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781104253912

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Fraud, Famine and Fascism
Fraud, Famine and Fascism

Author: Douglas Tottle

Publisher: Progress Books

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0919396518

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Argues that charges of a deliberate Soviet policy of genocide by famine directed against the Ukrainian nation in the early 1930s are based on inflated figures and fabricated evidence. This campaign was initiated by extreme right-wing forces in the USA and Nazi propagandists, and has continued since the 1950s by Ukrainian emigre organizations. Some writers have accused the Jews and "Stalin's Jewish government" of deliberately causing the famine. Ch. 9 (pp. 102-119), "Collaboration and Collusion, " discusses Ukrainian nationalist involvement in pogroms and assistance to the Germans during the Holocaust, particularly the faction led by Stepan Bandera and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. also describes how ex-members of these groups and of Ukrainian Waffen-SS units were enabled to enter the USA and Canada after the war.

Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust
Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust

Author: Miron Dolot

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-02-14

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 039307854X

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Seven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks. In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine as many as seven million Ukrainians starved to death. This poignant eyewitness account of the Ukrainian famine by one of the survivors relates the young Miron Dolot's day-to-day confrontation with despair and death—his helplessness as friends and family were arrested and abused—and his gradual realization, as he matured, of the absolute control the Soviets had over his life and the lives of his people. But it is also the story of personal dignity in the face of horror and humiliation. And it is an indictment of a chapter in the Soviet past that is still not acknowledged by Russian leaders.

The Big Show in Bololand
The Big Show in Bololand

Author: Bertrand M. Patenaude

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 836

ISBN-13: 9780804744935

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The author sheds light on a little-known chapter of U.S.-Soviet relations, using diaries, memoirs, and letters to recall the efforts of nearly 300 relief workers in easing the suffering of Russians during one of the country's worst famines.