Full name: Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust

Author: Miron Dolot Year: 1985 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393304169 0393304167

In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine as many as seven million Ukrainians starved to death. This poignant eyewitness account of the Ukrainian famine by one of the survivors relates the young Miron Dolot's day-to-day confrontation with despair and death--his helplessness as friends and family were arrested and abused--and his gradual realization, as he matured, of the absolute control the Soviets had over his life and the lives of his people. But it is also the story of personal dignity in the face of horror and humiliation. And it is an indictment of a chapter in the Soviet past that is still not acknowledged by Russian leaders. Similar books: Down with Big Brother by Michael Dobbs The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild Red Famine by Anne Applebaum Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick Soviet Tragedy by Martin Malia The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine The Last Empire by S. M. Plokhy Lenin's Private War by Lesley Chamberlain Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin by George F. Kennan Trotsky by Bertrand M. Patenaude The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick Moscow, 1937 by Karl Schlogel Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer