Research Guides: The 1932-1933 Ukrainian Famine: Stalin’s Genocide: Academic Writings

Books

Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor by Ray Gamache This is the first academic study of Gareth Jones, now recognized as one of the first journalists to reveal the horror of the Holodomor, the Soviet Government--induced famine in the early 1930s, which killed millions of Ukrainians. 20 black-and-white illustrations.
Call Number: Main DK508.8375 .G36 2013
ISBN: 9781860570568
Publication Date: 2013
The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining peasants in party-controlled "collective" farms. This was followed in 1932-33 by a "terror-famine," inflicted by the State on the collectivized peasants of the Ukraine and certain other areas by setting impossibly high grain quotas, removing every other source of food, and preventing help from outside--even from other areas of the Soviet Union--from reaching the starving populace. The death toll resulting from the actions described in this book was an estimated 14.5 million--more than the total number of deaths for all countries in World War I. Ambitious, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, The Harvest of Sorrow is a deeply moving testament to those who died, and will register in the Western consciousness a sense of the dark side of this century's history.
Call Number: Main HD1492.S65 C66 1986
ISBN: 9780195040548
Publication Date: 1986
Holodomor: The Ukrainian Genocide 1932-1933 by Oleh Romanyshyn (Editor), Orest Steciw (Editor)
Call Number: Main DK508.8372
ISBN: 9780993965210
Publication Date: 2020
The Holodomor Reader by Bohdan Klid (Editor); Alexander J. Motyl (Editor) The Holodomor Reader is a wide-ranging collection of key texts and source materials, many of which have never before appeared in English, on the genocidal famine (Holodomor) of 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine. The subject is introduced in an extensive interpretive essay, and the material is presented in six sections: scholarship; legal assessments, findings, and resolutions; eyewitness accounts and memoirs; survivor testimonies, memoirs, diaries, and letters; Soviet, Ukrainian, British, German, Italian, and Polish documents; and works of literature. Each section is prefaced with introductory remarks. The Reader is an indispensable guide for all those interested in the Holodomor, genocide, or Stalinism.
Call Number: Available Online
ISBN: 9781894865296
Publication Date: 2012
Man-Made Famine in Ukraine by Robert Conquest
Call Number: Main HC337.U5 M24 1984
ISBN: 9780844735528
Publication Date: 1984
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes--the consequences of which still resonate today 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. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: after a series of rebellions unsettled the province, Stalin set out to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry. The state sealed the republic's borders and seized all available food. Starvation set in rapidly, and 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. Today, Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more. 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.
Call Number: Main DK508.8374 .A67 2017
ISBN: 9780385538855
Publication Date: 2017
The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933 by R. W. Davies; Stephen G. Wheatcroft 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.
Call Number: Main HD1492.R9 D36 2004
ISBN: 9780333311073
Publication Date: 2003

Online Journal Articles

Harvard Ukrainian Studies
Publication Date: 1977-present

Legal Assessment

Antonovych, Myroslava. “Legal Accountability for the Holodomor-Genocide of 1932–1933 (Great Famine) in Ukraine.” Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal 1, no. 1 (2015): 159–176. (Available Online)

Vassylenko, Volodymyr. The Ukrainian Holodomor of 1932-1933 as a Crime of Genocide: A Legal Assessment. Kyiv: Olena Teliha Publishing House, 2009. (Available Online)

Speech

Lemkin, Raphael. "Soviet Genocide in the Ukraine" Transcript of speech delivered at Manhattan Center, NY, September 20, 1953. http://history.org.ua/LiberUA/RaphaelLemkin_1953/RaphaelLemkin_1953.pdf