Famine in the Soviet Ukraine 1932-1933 A Memorial Exhibition, Widener Library, Harvard University

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.Procyk, Oksana is the author of 'Famine in the Soviet Ukraine 1932-1933 A Memorial Exhibition, Widener Library, Harvard University' with ISBN 9780674294264 and ISBN 0674294262.