Description: 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.Paperback. 430 pp.
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Type: History & Historiography, Ukraine
Book Title: Harvest of Sorrow : Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
Item Length: 5.5in
Item Height: 1.1in
Item Width: 8.5in
Author: Robert ConQuest
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Features: Reprint
Topic: Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 1987
Genre: History
Item Weight: 17.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 430 Pages
