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The Harvest of Sorrow

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.  ISBN : 0195040546

The Ukrainian Genocide

Refugees try to escape the Ukraine flood by hopping onto a train. Some cling to the roof to get out. Ukraine, USSR. 1933.

Refugees try to escape the Ukraine flood by hopping onto a train. Some cling to the roof to get out. Ukraine, USSR. 1933.

International Response

Photo by Thomas Walker in Chicago American, reporting people eating cats and dogs to survive in Soviet Ukraine, 1935

Photo by Thomas Walker in Chicago American, reporting people eating cats and dogs to survive in Soviet Ukraine, 1935

Remembrance

Field of Wheat - Washington memorial to victims of genocidal famine in Ukraine

Field of Wheat - Washington memorial to victims of genocidal famine in Ukraine

Survival

Starving children circa 1932 during the Holodomor, famine induced by Soviet forced collectivization

Starving children circa 1932 during the Holodomor, famine induced by Soviet forced collectivization

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