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The Historian’s Craft Lesson on Human Rights and the Holodomor
The Historian’s Craft Lesson on Human Rights and the Holodomor (Edmonton and Toronto: CIUS Press, 2024, 90 pages) is a comprehensive lesson that uses a variety of resources to teach students about human rights and the Holodomor in an engaging and interactive way. Written by Valentina Kuryliw, Director of Education for the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC), the book is an excellent resource that promotes human rights education and introduces the topic of the Holodomor across many grade levels and teaching contexts. This lesson delivers well-laid-out strategies and clear content that teachers can utilize directly in their classrooms. It includes a PowerPoint presentation to accompany each task in the lesson (this presentation can be freely downloaded from the HREC Education website at: www.education.holodomor.ca).
Encouraging students to work collaboratively in groups with their peers, this lesson engages student interest in social justice and world events. It also offers experiential learning opportunities that motivate students to problem solve and think critically. Working in detective-like manner to analyze a variety of primary sources, students are prompted to arrive at their own conclusions. The lesson inspires students to think critically about actions they can take to create and sustain a safer and more just world for the future.
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Eternal Memory: Monuments and Memorials of the Holodomor
In Eternal Memory: Monuments and Memorials of the Holodomor, Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek provides an in-depth examination of “places of memory” associated with the Great Famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine, supplemented by photographs from across the globe that highlight both the uniqueness of individual monuments and their commonalities. The author investigates the history, aesthetics, and symbolism of a wide array of commemorative spaces, including museums, commemorative plaques, and sites directly linked with the victims of the Holodomor (previously unmarked mass graves, for example). The book not only illuminates the range of meanings that communities of memory have invested in these sites but sheds light on the processes by which commemorative practices have evolved and been shared between Ukraine and the diaspora.
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The Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine: An Anatomy of the Holodomor
The Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine: An Anatomy of the Holodomor is a distillation of thirty years of study of the topic by one of Ukraine’s leading historians. In this account, Stanislav Kulchytsky ably incorporates a vast array of sources and literature that have become available in the past three decades into a highly readable narrative, explaining the motives, circumstances and course of this terrible crime against humanity. As the author shows, the Holodomor was triggered by the Bolshevik effort to build a communist socioeconomic order in the Soviet Union. For the peasant majority of the population, this meant the forcible collectivization of individual farms, the seizure of livestock and farm implements, and the conversion of independent farmers into agricultural laborers. Excessive requisitioning of grain and other foodstuffs in the collectivization drive led to famine and deaths in grain-producing regions of the USSR by early 1932.
In Ukraine, punitive measures authorized by the Kremlin’s top leadership greatly worsened the famine in late 1932 and turned it into the Holodomor, which claimed more than three million lives in the first half of 1933. Identifying key events and decisions that produced the Holodomor, Kulchytsky analyzes economic and political factors, including the national dimension in Ukraine. The book begins with the author’s address to the reader, presenting his view of the Holodomor as genocide. In addition to the main text, the volume includes a preface, afterword, glossary, list of abbreviations and acronyms, bibliography, and a short essay on the author and his writings.
The Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: An Anatomy of the Holodomor was prepared for publication by the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta. HREC undertook the translation of Stanislav Kulchytsky’s monograph Ukraïns’kyi holodomor v konteksti polityky Kremlia pochatku 1930 rr. as part of its efforts to make available in English seminal works by Ukrainian scholars of the Holodomor.
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Holodomor in Ukraine, the Genocidal Famine, 1932-1933
Holodomor in Ukraine, the Genocidal Famine 1932-1933: Learning Materials for Teachers and Students is a comprehensive teaching resource for studying and teaching the Holodomor. Written by Valentina Kuryliw, Director of Education for the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC), the book is a first-of-its-kind resource developed for use in a range of courses and grade levels. Printed in full colour, the richly illustrated 308-page workbook features stand-alone teaching materials, lesson plans, and assignments as well as timelines, maps, memoirs, photographs, age-appropriate literary works, and resource listings. The teaching methods and strategies focus on developing critical and historical thinking skills while integrating primary sources.
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Contextualizing the Holodomor: The Impact of Thirty Years of Ukrainian Famine Studies
It was in the 1980s that the Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine became the subject of serious academic study. The publication of Robert Conquest’s ground-breaking The Harvest of Sorrow in 1986 in particular focused attention on what has come to be known as the Holodomor. The pace of research accelerated in the wake of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, when archives that had been off limits became accessible. Issues that had once raised controversy such as whether the Ukrainian borders had been closed were resolved by documentary evidence. Careful demographic studies replaced intuitive estimates on population losses. In addition, the amount of survivor testimony expanded many times over. Yet many issues continue to be debated, such as the relation of the Holodomor to the general Soviet famine, intentionality, and the question of genocide.
With this context in mind, the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies partnered with several institutions to organize a conference examining what thirty years of scholarly work on the Famine has added to our understanding of Ukrainian history, Soviet history, communism, and genocide studies. The conference, held in September 2013 on the eightieth anniversary of the Holodomor, brought together specialists to discuss the impact in their fields of research and academic discourse on the Holodomor. This book contains the conference papers given by Norman Naimark, on genocide; Andrea Graziosi, on Soviet history; Françoise Thom, on Stalinism; Olga Andriewsky, on Ukrainian history; and Stanislav Kulchytsky, on communism. An introductory article by Frank Sysyn provides an overview of thirty years of research on the Holodomor. These papers first appeared in the journal East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, edited by Oleh Ilnytzkyj.
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The Holodomor Reader
The Holodomor Reader is a wide-ranging collection of key texts and source materials, many of which have never before appeared in English, on the genocidal famine (Holodomor) of 1932–33 in Soviet Ukraine. The subject is introduced in an extensive interpretive essay, and the material is presented in six sections: scholarship; legal assessments, findings, and resolutions; eyewitness accounts and memoirs; survivor testimonies, memoirs, diaries, and letters; Soviet, Ukrainian, British, German, Italian, and Polish documents; and works of literature. Each section is prefaced with introductory remarks describing the contents. The book also contains a guide to further reading and a map.
Besides turning a spotlight on this human catastrophe, whose magnitude did not become generally apparent until the Soviet collapse, this book presents ample evidence that the Holodomor was a genocide perpetrated by Joseph Stalin and his henchmen. The Reader is an indispensable guide for all those interested in the Holodomor, genocide, or Stalinism.
The publication of this book has been funded by a generous donation from the estate of Edward Brodacky (1926–2007), who settled in London, England, after the Second World War.
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Documenting the Famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine
This collection of articles breaks new ground in Holodomor scholarship, presenting archival sources that in many cases are little known or completely unexplored. The articles are organized in four sections: new explorations of archival collections; responses of Western governments to events in Ukraine in 1932-33; the international response to the Famine; and perspectives for future exploration. Researchers share their knowledge of the archives of foreign affairs ministries in countries that maintained diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in the 1930s, including Japan and the United States. Other researchers report on the archives of immigrant and diaspora communities that emigrated from Soviet Ukraine to Western Europe and North America. The Ukrainian, Jewish, and Mennonite communities in particular maintained contact with individuals in Soviet Ukraine, and surviving materials cast new light on the events of 1932–33. A number of articles describe newspaper coverage in France, Canada, and the United States, and several explore overlooked collections of oral interviews. The volume builds upon and augments research already accomplished and indicates promising future avenues of investigation.
This book, edited by Myroslav Shkandrij, includes the following articles:
Collectivization and Famine in Ukraine in US Department of State Documents, 1929–34 / Andrii BOLIANOVSKYI
Representations of the 1932–33 Ukrainian Famine in the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive / Inna GOGINA
Toward a Social History of the Holodomor and its Aftermath: Famine Survivor Testimonies in the Archive of the US Commission on the Ukraine Famine / John VSETECKA
History as a Narrative of the People: The Maniak Collection as a Source for the Social and Cultural History of the Holodomor / Olga KLYMENKO
The Holodomor in the Light of Japanese Documents / Hiroaki KUROMIYA
Perspectives on the Mennonite Experience during the Holodomor (1932–33): Resources in North American Archives and Libraries / Colin P. NEUFELDT
Bearing Witness to the Holodomor: Eyewitness and Survivor Collections of the Early Cold War Period (1947–55)/ Olga ANDRIEWSKY
The Holodomor and Canada’s Response: Archival Findings / Serge CIPKO
‘A Trial of Strength against the Restive Peasantry’: What the Germans Knew about the Great Famine in the USSR and How They Perceived It / Paolo FONZI
The Voyage Enchanté of Édouard Herriot in Ukraine / Iryna DMYTRYCHYN
The American Yiddish Daily Forverts on Privation in Soviet Ukraine: Experiences and Reflections / Gennady ESTRAIKH
The Holodomor and the Informational Work of the Ukrainian Bureau in London during 1932–34/ Roman WYSOCKI
The Ukrainian Famine of 1932–33 in the Russian Émigré Discourse of the Interwar Period / Mykola I. SOROKA
The Meaning of the Holodomor of 1932–33: From Collective Reproduction to Individual Reconstruction of Mental Trauma / Larysa ZASIEKINA
Reactions to the 1932–33 Holodomor by Ukrainians in Interwar Europe: New Discoveries and Sources / Mirosław CZECH, Ola HNATIUK
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Empire, Colonialism, and Famine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The essays in this volume examine the often-overlooked connection between empire building, imperial rule, and mass starvation. While droughts and other natural disasters can lead to serious food shortages, a decline in food availability need not result in wide-scale starvation. Mass starvation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has almost always been linked to political decisions about food distribution—whether food is made available to those who most need it. Some of the worst cases occurred within empires or their colonies, with the greatest number of victims in the communist empires ruled by Mao, Lenin, and Stalin.
Topics addressed include famines in Soviet-ruled Ukraine, British-ruled Ireland and India, and the People’s Republic of China, as well as famine and food policies during World War II connected to Nazi German and Romanian empire-building in occupied Ukraine and Moldova. One essay compares the Irish and Ukrainian famines in the context of internal colonialism and alien rule. Another examines Raphael Lemkin’s views on genocide and famine. The introductory essay provides an overview of recent literature on famine theory and other studies addressing the connection between empires, empirebuilding, and famines. The collection points to the value of comparative study of wartime famines in occupied territories in the context of empire building, and of famines linked to imperial or colonial rule in overseas colonies or peripheral regions (internal colonies). This volume had its origins in conferences organized in 2016 in Toronto and 2017 in Kyiv by the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC). HREC is a project of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, established through funding from the Temerty Foundation.
This book includes the following texts:
- Preface / Bohdan Klid
- Introduction: Empire-Building, Imperial Policies, and Famine in Occupied Territories and Colonies / Bohdan Klid
- Famine As an Instrument of Nazi Occupation Policy in Ukraine, 1941-44 / Oleksandr Lysenko, Tetiana Zabolotna, Oleksandr Maievs’kyi (trans. Mark Baker)
- Dying Hungry: Nazi Ideology and the Pragmatism behind Starvation in Implementing the Final Solution / Kiril Feferman
- Food Supply, Starvation, and Food As a Weapon in the Camps and Ghettos of Romanian-Occupied Bessarabia and Transnistria, 1941-44 / Paul A. Shapiro
- Hunger Habitus: State, Society, and Starvation in Twentieth-Century Bengal / Janam Mukherjee
- Stalin’s Faminogenic Policies in Ukraine: The Imperial Discourse / Liudmyla Hrynevych; Andrew Sorokowski (trans.)
- Internal Colonialism, Alien Rule, and Famine in Ireland and Ukraine / Michael Hechter
- Was the Great Irish Famine a Colonial Famine? / Peter Gray
- The 1958-62 Chinese Famine and Its Impact on Ethnic Minorities / Lucien Bianco
- Raphaël Lemkin, Genocide, Colonialism, Famine, and Ukraine / Douglas Irvin-Erickson
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Україна Модерна, No. 30-31, 2021
Supported by the Peter Jacyk Program for the Study of Modern Ukrainian History and Society at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, the scholarly journal Ukraina Moderna is one of the leading historical journals in Ukraine.
Its special issue no. 30-31 for 2021 is dedicated to the topic of the archival collections on the Holodomor outside the former Soviet Union. It contains fifteen scholarly articles that resulted from a conference entitled “Documenting the Famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine: Archival Collections on the Holodomor Outside the Former Soviet Union,” which was held at the University of Alberta on 1–2 November 2019. The conference organizers, seeking to explore and bring to light little-known sources, invited a number of scholars who have worked in archival collections to contribute to the discussion. The resulting volume presents a survey of various archival collections. Researchers who have worked with archives of immigrant and diaspora communities in Europe and North America shared their knowledge of materials in the collections of Ukrainian, Jewish, and Mennonite communities that had emigrated from Soviet Ukraine. The archives of these groups, which had maintained contact with and aided their compatriots in Soviet Ukraine, cast a new light on the events of 1932–33. A number of papers in this volume describe these archival collections and analyze materials of these lesser-known and under-researched primary sources. This issue also contains nine book reviews.
All past issues of Україна Модерна can be found at the journal’s website: https://www.utpjournals.press/loi/ukrainamoderna.
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Олґерд Іполит Бочковський: Вибрані праці і документи. Томи 1, 2, 3 (ч. 1 + 2)
This three-volume (in four books) edition (compiled and edited by Miroslaw Czech and Ola Hnatiuk) of selected works of a prominent, but largely forgotten Ukrainian sociologist of Polish descent, Olgerd Ippolit Bochkovsky, represents one of the major discoveries in the field of Ukrainian sociology in recent decades. Born in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, Bochkovsky emigrated to Prague in 1905 and during 1917-20 served as a member of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission in Czechoslovakia. He lectured at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague and the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Poděbrady. In 1933 he headed the so-called Famine Committee, which aided victims of the Famine-Genocide of 1932–3 in Ukraine, and wrote an ‘Open Letter’ on 5 September 1933 to the former French premier, E. Herriot, who denied that there was famine in Ukraine. As sociologist Bochkovsky specialized in the study of nationalism and the processes of nation-building.
Volume 1 includes Bochkovsky’s early works, such as Ponevoleni narody tsars’koï imperiï, ïkh natsional’ne vidrodzhennia ta avtonomne priamuvannia (The Captive Nations of the Tsarist Empire: Their National Rebirth and Striving for Autonomy, 1916), in which he presents his theories describing the processes of transformation of captive peoples into modern nations.
Volume 2 includes his longer studies, such as Borot’ba narodiv za natsional’ne vyzvolennia (Nations’ Struggle for National Liberation, 1932), and Vstup do natsiolohiï (Introduction to ‘Nationology,’ 1934), in which Bochkovsky presents his theories of modern nation-building.
Volume 3 (in 2 books) includes his scholarly and publicistic works dedicated to the Great Famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine (the Holodomor), the topic of the subjugation of small nations, the nation-building processes in Western Europe and the specific problems of Ukrainian nation-building, the formation of the modern Czech nation and Czech-Ukrainian relations, and many others. The majority of the works published in this volume have been unknown even to specialists.
This fundamental 3-volume (in 4 books) edition was published with the support of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Modern Ukrainian History and Society at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
Volume 1 of this edition can be found at: Вибрані праці і документи. Том 1.
Volume 2 of this edition can be found at: Вибрані праці і документи. Том 2.
Volume 3 (in 2 books) of this edition can be found at: Вибрані праці і документи. Том 3 (ч. 1 і 2).