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The Harvest of Sorrow

Robert Conquest

How did the Soviet collectivization terror take more lives than all countries lost in the First World War?

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Author
Robert Conquest

Why read it

  • You will understand how Stalin used collectivization and a man made famine to crush the peasants and Ukrainian national life
  • You will question how a regime could persuade many Westerners to deny or ignore plain facts
  • You will learn how the regime trapped starving peasants, stopping them leaving the Ukraine and the Kuban to look for bread

Who it is for

  • A reader of Soviet or Ukrainian history who wants the famine's story
  • A student of how states hide atrocities
  • Someone weighing denial claims against archives

Contents

  1. About the Book
  2. Preface to the 2002 Edition
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. PART I
  6. The Protagonists: Party, Peasants and Nation
  7. The Peasants and the Party
  8. The Ukrainian Nationalioi and Leninism
  9. Revolution, Peasant War and Famine, 1917–21
  10. Stalemate, 1921–7
  11. PART II
  12. To Crush the Peasantry
  13. Collision Course, 1928–9
  14. The Fate of the ‘Kulaks’
  15. Crash Collectivization and its Defeat Januag–March 1930
  16. The End of the Free Peasantry, 1930–32
  17. Central Asia and the Kazakh Tragedy
  18. The Churches and the People
  19. PART III
  20. The Terror-Famine
  21. Assault on the Ukraine, 1930–32
  22. The Famine Rages
  23. A Land Laid Waste
  24. Kuban, Don, and Volga
  25. Children
  26. The Death Roll
  27. The Record of the West
  28. Responsibilities
  29. EPILOGUE
  30. The Aftermath

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