LoginThe Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
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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
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Release date: 12 November 1987
ISBN-10 : 0195051807 | ISBN-13: 9780195051803
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Release date: 12 November 1987
ISBN-10 : 0195051807 | ISBN-13: 9780195051803
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Darth Brutus added this to a list 3 years, 11 months ago
Book Diary 2021 (96 books items)"17.5. A classic study of terror famines of Stalin-era Soviet Union, which killed millions of innocent people. The main problem with this kind modern studies is that the system back then was corrupted garbage and barely any reliable statistics exist, mostly just eyewitness accounts and other material, which do prove that these things happened, but not the exact scale of them."
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