The Holodomor Through the Eyes of Ukraine’s Scholars

Description

Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, the study of the 1932–33 famine in Soviet Ukraine (the Holodomor) has resulted in thousands of publications by Ukrainian authors, both popular and scholarly. Yet the international academic community is largely unfamiliar with these works. This volume of twelve translated scholarly essays makes available to a wider English-language readership a selection of writings by Ukraine’s scholars and will be of value not only to those who research the Holodomor but also to those interested more broadly in Ukrainian and Soviet history as well as famine and genocide.  Most of the topics addressed in this volume have received little attention in English-language historiography and range from the role of Soviet elites in the Holodomor to the mobilization of students to work in the countryside. Among the articles collected here are contributions from established scholars, lesser-known Ukrainian historians, and a team of demographers that includes one American.

The Table of Contents of this book includes the following articles:

Preface / Bohdan Klid
Introduction / Bohdan Klid and Oksana Vynnyk
The Ukrainian Holodomor against the Background of the Communist Onslaught, 1929–38 / Stanislav Kulchytsky
A Crisis in Relations: Leaders of the USSR and Ukrainian SSR During the Holodomor / Valerii Vasyliev
The Ruling Stratum in the Ukrainian SSR during the Holodomor of 1932–33 / Mykola Doroshko
Vsevolod Balytsky and the Holodomor of 1932–33 / Yuri Shapoval
Blacklists as an Instrument of the Famine-Genocide of 1932–33 in Ukraine / Heorhii Papakin
The Activities of Ukraine’s Union of Militant Atheists during the Period of All-Out Collectivization, 1929–33 / Tetiana Yevsieieva
The Mobilization of Young People for Participation in the Communist Transformation of the Counryside during Collectivization and the Holodomor / Olga Ryabchenko
The Price of Stalin’s “Revolution from Above”: Anticipation of War among the Ukrainian Peasantry / Liudmyla Hrynevych
“Ukrainization” and the Famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine / Viktor Danylenko and Petro Bondarchuk
The Torgsin in Soviet Ukraine (1931–36) / Mykola Horokh
Urban and Rural Population Losses in Ukraine as a Result of the Holodomor in 1932–34: New Estimates / Nataliia Levchuk, Tetiana Boriak, Oleh Wolowyna, Omelian Rudnytskyi, Alla Kovbasiuk
Resettlements and Deportations during the Post-Holodomor Years (1933–36): A District-by-District Breakdown / Hennadii Yefimenko