The Harvest Of Sorrow

Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher : Random House
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446496336

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The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest Pdf

Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written. More deaths resulted from the actions described in this book than from the whole of the First World War. Epic in scope and rich in detail, The Harvest of Sorrow describes how millions of peasants in the USSR were dispossessed and deported as a result of the abolition of private property, and how millions in the newly established ‘collective’ farms of the Ukraine and other regions were then deliberately starved to death through impossibly high quotas, the removal of all other sources of food and their isolation from outside help. With the publication of this and his earlier book, The Great Terror, which revealed the truth about Stalin’s political purges, Robert Conquest revealed to the West the staggering human cost of the Soviet regime.

Author : R. Davies,S. Wheatcroft
Publisher : Springer
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230273979

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The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 by R. Davies,S. Wheatcroft Pdf

This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. It is the first volume in English to make extensive use of Russian and Ukrainian central and local archives to assess the extent and causes of the famine. It reaches new conclusions on how far the famine was 'organized' or 'artificial', and compares it with other Russian and Soviet famines and with major twentieth century famines elsewhere. Against this background, it discusses the emergence of collective farming as an economic and social system.

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307368294

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Koba the Dread by Martin Amis Pdf

A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis’s award-winning memoir, Experience. Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century — one that spread through the world, both captivating it and staining it red. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of 20th-century thought: the indulgence of Communism by the intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginnings and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one-hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible. The author’s father, Kingsley Amis, though later reactionary in tendency, was a “Comintern dogsbody” (as he would come to put it) from 1941 to 1956. His second-closest, and then his closest friend (after the death of the poet Philip Larkin), was Robert Conquest, our leading Sovietologist whose book of 1968, The Great Terror, was second only to Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in undermining the USSR. The present memoir explores these connections. Stalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere “statistic.” Koba the Dread, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin’s aphorism.

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Signal
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771009310

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Red Famine by Anne Applebaum Pdf

Winner of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, a revelatory history of Stalin's greatest crime. In 1929, Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization -- in effect a second Russian revolution -- which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people perished between 1931 and 1933 in the U.S.S.R. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum reveals for the first time that three million of them died not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy, but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: that Stalin set out to exterminate a vast swath of the Ukrainian population and replace them with more cooperative, Russian-speaking peasants. A peaceful Ukraine would provide the Soviets with a safe buffer between itself and Europe, and would be a bread basket region to feed Soviet cities and factory workers. When the province rebelled against collectivization, Stalin sealed the borders and began systematic food seizures. Starving, people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil.

Author : Karel C. Berkhoff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674020782

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Harvest of Despair by Karel C. Berkhoff Pdf

“If I find a Ukrainian who is worthy of sitting at the same table with me, I must have him shot,” declared Nazi commissar Erich Koch. To the Nazi leaders, the Ukrainians were Untermenschen—subhumans. But the rich land was deemed prime territory for Lebensraum expansion. Once the Germans rid the country of Jews, Roma, and Bolsheviks, the Ukrainians would be used to harvest the land for the master race. Karel Berkhoff provides a searing portrait of life in the Third Reich’s largest colony. Under the Nazis, a blend of German nationalism, anti-Semitism, and racist notions about the Slavs produced a reign of terror and genocide. But it is impossible to understand fully Ukraine’s response to this assault without addressing the impact of decades of repressive Soviet rule. Berkhoff shows how a pervasive Soviet mentality worked against solidarity, which helps explain why the vast majority of the population did not resist the Germans. He also challenges standard views of wartime eastern Europe by treating in a more nuanced way issues of collaboration and local anti-Semitism. Berkhoff offers a multifaceted discussion that includes the brutal nature of the Nazi administration; the genocide of the Jews and Roma; the deliberate starving of Kiev; mass deportations within and beyond Ukraine; the role of ethnic Germans; religion and national culture; partisans and the German response; and the desperate struggle to stay alive. Harvest of Despair is a gripping depiction of ordinary people trying to survive extraordinary events.

Author : Miron Dolot
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393078541

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Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust by Miron Dolot Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987192200

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The harvest of sorrow: Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine by Robert Conquest Pdf

Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 0297813889

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Stalin by Robert Conquest Pdf

Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher : Random House
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446496275

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The Great Terror by Robert Conquest Pdf

Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. One of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union, The Great Terror revealed to the West for the first time the true extent and nature Stalin’s purges in the 1930s, in which around a million people were tortured and executed or sent to labour camps on political grounds. Its publication caused a widespread reassessment of Communism itself. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition gathers together the wealth of material added by the author in the decades following its first publication and features a new foreword by leading historian Anne Applebaum, explaining the continued relevance of this momentous period of history and of this classic account.

Author : Janusz Bardach,Kathleen Gleeson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520221524

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Man Is Wolf to Man by Janusz Bardach,Kathleen Gleeson Pdf

Originally published in hardcover in 1998.

Author : Cindy Woodsmall
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400073986

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The Harvest of Grace by Cindy Woodsmall Pdf

Reeling from an unexpected betrayal, can Sylvia find relief from the echoes of her past…or will they shape her future forever? Although Sylvia Fisher recognizes that most Old Order Amish women her age spend their hours managing a household and raising babies, she has just one focus—tending and nurturing the herd on her family’s dairy farm. But when a dangerous connection with an old beau forces her to move far from home, she decides to concentrate on a new start and pour her energy into reviving another family’s debt-ridden farm. After months in rehab, Aaron Blank returns home to sell his Daed’s failing farm and move his parents into an easier lifestyle. Two things stand in his way: the father who stubbornly refuses to recognize that Aaron has changed and the determined new farmhand his parents love like a daughter. Her influence on Aaron’s parents could ruin his plans to escape the burdens of farming and build a new life. Can Aaron and Sylvia find common ground? Or will their unflinching efforts toward opposite goals blur the bigger picture— a path to forgiveness, glimpses of grace, and the promise of love.

Author : Michelle Sagara
Publisher : LUNA
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780373803569

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Cast in Sorrow by Michelle Sagara Pdf

THE END OF HER JOURNEY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING… The Barrani would be happy to see her die. So Kaylin Neya is a bit surprised by her safe arrival in the West March. Especially when enemies new and old surround her and those she would call friends are equally dangerous… And then the real trouble starts. Kaylin's assignment is to be a "harmoniste"—one who helps tell the truth behind a Barrani Recitation. But in a land where words are more effective than weapons, Kaylin's duties are deadly. With the wrong phrase she could tear a people further asunder. And with the right ones…well, then she might be able to heal a blight on a race. If only she understood the story….

Author : Robert Conquest,Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Collectivization of agriculture
ISBN : 0888641109

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The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest,Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Pdf

Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393320863

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Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest Pdf

A look at the twentieth century examines the factors and events that have sent millions to their deaths, discussing the philosophies that have caused so much conflict, as well as what the future may hold for the human race.

Author : Antonio R. Damasio
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0156028719

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Looking for Spinoza by Antonio R. Damasio Pdf

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