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The Harvest of Sorrow

1986 History
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Release : 1986
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Harvest of Sorrow by : Robert Conquest

Download or read book The Harvest of Sorrow written by Robert Conquest. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants; abolished privately held land and forced the remaining peasantry into "collective" farms; and inflicted impossible grain quotas on the peasants that resulted in mass starvation.

The Harvest of Sorrow

2018-11-01 History
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Release : 2018-11-01
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Book Synopsis The Harvest of Sorrow by : Robert Conquest

Download or read book The Harvest of Sorrow written by Robert Conquest. This book was released on 2018-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written. More deaths resulted from the actions described in this book than from the whole of the First World War. Epic in scope and rich in detail, The Harvest of Sorrow describes how millions of peasants in the USSR were dispossessed and deported as a result of the abolition of private property, and how millions in the newly established ‘collective’ farms of the Ukraine and other regions were then deliberately starved to death through impossibly high quotas, the removal of all other sources of food and their isolation from outside help. With the publication of this and his earlier book, The Great Terror, which revealed the truth about Stalin’s political purges, Robert Conquest revealed to the West the staggering human cost of the Soviet regime.

The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933

2016-01-13 History
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Release : 2016-01-13
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Book Synopsis The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 by : R. Davies

Download or read book The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 written by R. Davies. This book was released on 2016-01-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. It is the first volume in English to make extensive use of Russian and Ukrainian central and local archives to assess the extent and causes of the famine. It reaches new conclusions on how far the famine was 'organized' or 'artificial', and compares it with other Russian and Soviet famines and with major twentieth century famines elsewhere. Against this background, it discusses the emergence of collective farming as an economic and social system.

Koba the Dread

2010-08-13 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2010-08-13
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Koba the Dread by : Martin Amis

Download or read book Koba the Dread written by Martin Amis. This book was released on 2010-08-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis’s award-winning memoir, Experience. Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century — one that spread through the world, both captivating it and staining it red. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of 20th-century thought: the indulgence of Communism by the intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginnings and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one-hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible. The author’s father, Kingsley Amis, though later reactionary in tendency, was a “Comintern dogsbody” (as he would come to put it) from 1941 to 1956. His second-closest, and then his closest friend (after the death of the poet Philip Larkin), was Robert Conquest, our leading Sovietologist whose book of 1968, The Great Terror, was second only to Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in undermining the USSR. The present memoir explores these connections. Stalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere “statistic.” Koba the Dread, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin’s aphorism.

Reflections on a Ravaged Century

2001 Business & Economics
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Release : 2001
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Reflections on a Ravaged Century by : Robert Conquest

Download or read book Reflections on a Ravaged Century written by Robert Conquest. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the twentieth century examines the factors and events that have sent millions to their deaths, discussing the philosophies that have caused so much conflict, as well as what the future may hold for the human race.

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