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The Harvest of Sorrow

Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine

By Robert Conquest

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| Paperback | 9780195051803

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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,
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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.

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  • Starving the Ukraine

    The ‘peasant question’, in some form or other, was one that Russian governments faced for hundreds of years. Although it presented itself in many aspects, the essential problem was how to harness a dispersed and backward agriculture to state needs. I ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

  • Stalin’s Two Famines

    Robert Conquest is one of those rare gifted beings who can combine in one book the results of research, documented and footnoted, with the haute vulgarisation thereof. So The Harvest of Sorrow is a very good book “in both kinds”—and let no mere acade ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sun, 22 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 430 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0195051807
  • ISBN-13: 9780195051803
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Pub date: Nov 12, 1987
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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