Famine in the Soviet Ukraine, 1932-1933 : a memorial exhibition, Widener Library, Harvard University / prepared by Oksana Procyk, Leonid Heretz, James E. Mace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Procyk, Oksana.

Contributor:

Heretz, Leonid.

Mace, James E. (James Earnest), 1952-2004.

Harvard University. Library. Exhibition (1983-1984)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victims of famines--Ukraine.

Victims of famines.

Peasants--Ukraine.

Peasants.

Collectivization of agriculture--Ukraine.

Collectivization of agriculture.

Famines.

Ukraine.

Ukraine--Famines.

Soviet Union--Economic policy--1928-1932.

Soviet Union.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

xi, 83 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.

Summary:

This library exhibition catalogue is a survey of current knowledge about the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933. Intended to be a ready source of information and documentation as well as a guide for further research, this publication consists of a concise, well-illustrated historical narrative, a brief summary of scholany research on the subject, excerpts from a wide range of sources, and an extensive bibliography. The following aspects of the Famine and its historical context are presented: the Ukrainian Revolution 1917-1921; the development of Bolshevik policy toward the nationalities and the peasantry; the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic arid the policy of Ukrainization; the Ukrainian cultural renaissance of the 1920s; Stalin's seizure of power--purges, collectivization, and industrialization; the Famine in the contemporary western press; the Famine in memoirs and published eyewitness accounts; the Famine in literature; and commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Famine.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 78-83.

ISBN:

0674294262

OCLC:

18013503