The Foreign Office and the Famine
Title | The Foreign Office and the Famine PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Foreign Office |
Publisher | Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press |
Pages | 570 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
SCOTT (copy 1) From the Johns Holmes Library collection.
The Foreign Office and the Famine
Title | The Foreign Office and the Famine PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Foreign Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 493 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Food relief |
ISBN | 9780919642294 |
Red Famine
Title | Red Famine PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Applebaum |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 587 |
Release | 2017-10-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0385538863 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more—from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain. "With searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to eradicate 'backwardness' when undertaken by a regime in a state of war with its own people." —The Economist 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 died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. Applebaum’s compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the twenty-first.
Commission on the Ukraine Famine Act
Title | Commission on the Ukraine Famine Act PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Operations |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Famines |
ISBN |
Ukrainian Famine of 1932 and 1933
Title | Ukrainian Famine of 1932 and 1933 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
Publisher | |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Famines |
ISBN |
Famine in Africa
Title | Famine in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN |
Stalin's Nomads
Title | Stalin's Nomads PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Kindler |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2018-07-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822986140 |
Robert Kindler's seminal work is a comprehensive and unsettling account of the Soviet campaign to forcefully sedentarize and collectivize the Kazakh clans. Viewing the nomadic life as unproductive, and their lands unused and untilled, Stalin and his inner circle pursued a campaign of violence and subjugation, rather than attempting any dialog or cultural assimilation. The results were catastrophic, as the conflict and an ensuing famine (1931-1933) caused the death of nearly one-third of the Kazakh population. Hundreds of thousands of nomads became refugees and a nomadic culture and social order were essentially destroyed in less than five years. Kindler provides an in-depth analysis of Soviet rule, economic and political motivations, and the role of remote and local Soviet officials and Kazakhs during the crisis. This is the first English-language translation of an important and harrowing history, largely unknown to Western audiences prior to Kindler’s study. The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International – Translation Funding for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG WORT and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association).