The Years Of Hunger Soviet Agriculture 1931 1933

Author : R. Davies,S. Wheatcroft
Publisher : Springer
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Robert William Davies,S. G. Wheatcroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:803585392

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The Years of Hunger by Robert William Davies,S. G. Wheatcroft Pdf

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Signal
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Robert Conquest
Publisher : Random House
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Jonathan Daly
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780817920661

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Hammer, Sickle, and Soil by Jonathan Daly Pdf

In Hammer, Sickle, and Soil, Jonathan Daly tells the harrowing story of Stalin's transformation of millions of family farms throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period from 1929 to 1933. History's biggest experiment in social engineering at the time and the first example of the complete conquest of the bulk of a population by its rulers, the policy was above all intended to bring to Russia Marx's promised bright future of socialism. In the process, however, it caused widespread peasant unrest, massive relocations, and ultimately led to millions dying in the famine of 1932–33. Drawing on scholarly studies and primary-source collections published since the opening of the Soviet archives three decades ago, now, for the first time, this volume offers an accessible and accurate narrative for the general reader. The book is illustrated with propaganda posters from the period that graphically portray the drama and trauma of the revolution in Soviet agriculture under Stalin. In chilling detail the author describes how the havoc and destruction wrought in the countryside sowed the seeds of destruction of the entire Soviet experiment.

Author : Miron Dolot
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Felix Wemheuer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300206784

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Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union by Felix Wemheuer Pdf

During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist-era famines, in which overambitious industrial programs endorsed by Stalin and Mao Zedong created greater disasters than those suffered under prerevolutionary regimes. Focusing on famine as a political tool, Wemheuer systematically exposes how conflicts about food among peasants, urban populations, and the socialist state resulted in the starvation death of millions. A major contribution to Chinese and Soviet history, this provocative analysis examines the long-term effects of the great famines on the relationship between the state and its citizens and argues that the lessons governments learned from the catastrophes enabled them to overcome famine in their later decades of rule.

Author : Mark B. Tauger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110438889

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Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931-1933 by Mark B. Tauger Pdf

Author : Douglas Tottle
Publisher : Progress Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Famines
ISBN : 9780919396517

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Fraud, Famine and Fascism by Douglas Tottle Pdf

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.

Author : R. W. Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349254200

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Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era by R. W. Davies Pdf

Russian rethinking of the past has immense political significance. The author of the acclaimed Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution now examines the impact of the collapse of Communism and of the subsequent disillusionment with capitalism on Soviet history. The uses of history after the 1991 coup and in the 1995 and 1996 elections are considered in detail. Part two evaluates the unfinished revolution which has partly opened the archives, while part three offers reflections on the future of the Soviet past.

Author : Guido Alfani,Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107179936

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Famine in European History by Guido Alfani,Cormac Ó Gráda Pdf

The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages to present. It compares the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine in regional case studies by leading experts to form a comprehensive picture of when and why food security across the continent became a critical issue.

Author : Sarah Cameron
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501730450

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The Hungry Steppe by Sarah Cameron Pdf

The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime: the Kazakh famine of 1930–33. More than 1.5 million people, a quarter of Kazakhstan's population, perished. Yet the story of this famine has remained mostly hidden from view. Sarah Cameron reveals this brutal story and its devastating consequences for Kazakh society. Through extremely violent means, the Kazakh famine created Soviet Kazakhstan, a stable territory with clear boundaries that was an integral part of the Soviet economy; and it forged a new Kazakh national identity. But ultimately, Cameron finds, neither Kazakhstan nor Kazakhs themselves integrated into Soviet society the way Moscow intended. The experience of the famine scarred the republic and shaped its transformation into an independent nation in 1991. Cameron examines the Kazakh famine to overturn several assumptions about violence, modernization, and nation-making under Stalin, highlighting the creation of a new Kazakh national identity and how environmental factors shaped Soviet development. Ultimately, The Hungry Steppe depicts the Soviet regime and its disastrous policies in a new and unusual light.

Author : Robert William Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521627427

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Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev by Robert William Davies Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Soviet economic development from 1917 to 1965 in the context of the pre-revolutionary economy. In these years the Soviet Union negotiated the first stages of modern industrialisation and then, after the defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies, emerged as one of the two world superpowers. This was also the first attempt to construct a planned socialist order. These developments resulted in great economic achievements at great human cost. Using the results of recent Russian and Western research, Professor Davies discusses the inherent faults and strengths of the system, and pays particular attention to the major controversies. Was the Russian Revolution doomed to failure from the outset? Could the mixed economy of the 1920s have led to a democratic socialist economy? What was the influence of Soviet economic development on the rest of the world?

Author : David L. Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107007086

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The Stalinist Era by David L. Hoffmann Pdf

Placing Stalinism in its international context, The Stalinist Era explains the origins and consequences of Soviet state intervention and violence.

Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:49015000182635

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The Foreign Office and the Famine by Great Britain. Foreign Office Pdf

SCOTT (copy 1) From the Johns Holmes Library collection.