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Book Edited by Roman Serbyn and Bohdan Krawchenko
The Canadian Library of Ukrainian Studies
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1986
ISBN 0-92862-43-8 (bound)
Cover Design: Steve Tate
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PREFACE
The man-made famine of 1932-3 in Soviet Ukraine claimed the lives of
millions of people. Yet it has remained veiled in obscurity. The Soviet
authorities have continued to deny that a famine occurred, admitting only
that there was a worldwide hunger in the early 1930s, which affected
Ukraine just as it affected other parts of the world. In the West, until
the
fiftieth anniversary of the event in 1982-3, few outside the Ukrainian
community and a narrow group of Soviet specialists had heard about
this tragedy.
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Undoubtedly one of the main reasons for the lack of public awareness
about the events of the famine has been the absence of a critical body of
scholarship. This volume has been an attempt to rectify this problem.
At the same time, it should be borne in mind that the study of the famine
is in its infancy. There remain large gaps in our knowledge and, moreover,
as will be seen in the essays below, scholars differ in their
interpretations
of some of the events. Nevertheless, the book examines many of the
critical questions surrounding the famine of 1932-3.
It explores the following issues: the causes of the famine, sources of
information about the event, the scope of population loss, the impact of
the famine on Ukrainian society and the Western response. It also looks
at the question of genocide, and whether the Ukrainian famine can be
categorized with this term, and includes a comparative study of another
event unfamiliar to most in the West, namely the 1921-3 famine in Ukraine,
which in some respects was a "dress rehearsal" for its more devastating
counterpart a decade later.
This volume consists of selected papers from a conference held at the
Universite du Quebec a Montreal in 1983. The support of the above
university, in addition to that of Concordia University, the Shevchenko
Foundation, the Montreal Branch of Ukrainian Canadian Committee
and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies made possible not only
the conference, but also the appearance of this volume.
Roman Serbyn and Bohdan Krawchenko, April 1986
CONTENTS
The Man-Made Famine of 1933 in Soviet Ukraine/1
James E. Mace
The Man-Made Famine of 1932-1933 and Collectivization in Soviet
Ukraine/15, Bohdan Krawchenko
Ukraine's Demographic Losses 1927-1938/27
M. Maksudov
The Famine of 1933: A Survey of the Sources/45
James E. Mace
Making the News Fit to Print: Walter Duranty, the "New York Times"
and the Ukrainian Famine of 1933/67
Marco Carynnyk
Russian Mensheviks and the Famine of 1933/97
Andre Leibich
Blind Eye to Murder: Britain, the United States and the Ukrainian Famine
of 1933/109, Marco Carynnyk
The Impact of the Man-made Famine on the Structure of Ukrainian
Society/139, Wsewolod W. Isajiw
The Famine of 1921-1923: A Model for 1932-1933?/147
Roman Serbyn
Conceptualizations of Genocide and Ethnocide/179
Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn
List of Contributors/191
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