Chapter 7

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1. Victor Kravchenko, I Chose Freedom: The Personal and Political Life of a Soviet Official (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1946), 118, 122. Victor Kravchenko was mobilized by the Soviets to organize and guard the harvest of 1933.

2Joseph Stalin, October Revolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1934), 159-166, http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1924-2/industrialization-debate/industrialization-debate-texts/socialism-in-one-country-versus-permanent-revolution/. Speech was originally given on December 17, 1925.

3. Joshua Keefe, “Stalin and the Drive to Industrialize the Soviet Union,” Inquiries Journal 1, no. 10 (2009): 1, http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1684/stalin-and-the-drive-to-industrialize-the-soviet-union.

4. “The First of the Five Year Plans, 1928-1932,” University of Waterloo Special Collections & Archives, accessed 1/10/2022, https://uwaterloo.ca/library/special-collections-archives/first-five-year-plan.

5. R.W. Davies, M.B. Tauger, and S.G. Wheatcroft, “Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-33,” Slavic Review 4, no. 53 (Autumn 1995): 652, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2501740.

6. Joseph Stalin, “Work in the Countryside,” Marxists Internet Archive, accessed April 11, 2023, https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1933/01/11.htm.

7. “Revelations from the Russian Archives: Internal Workings of the Soviet Union,” Library of Congress, accessed April 13, 2023, https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intn.html#ukra.

8. Ibid.

9. Joseph Stalin, “Concerning the Policy of Eliminating the Kulaks as a Class,” Marxists Internet Archive, accessed April 11, 2023, https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1930/01/21.htm.

10. Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), 109.

11. Ibid., 124.

12. Gijs Kessler, “The Passport System and State Control over Population Flows in the Soviet Union, 1932-40,” Cahiers du Monde russe 42, no. 2/4, La police Politique en Union soviétique 1918-1953 (April-December 2001): 485, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20174642.

13. Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses, The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 396, https://books.google.com/books?id=xCHMFHQRNtYC&pg=PA396#v=onepage&q&f=false. While recent scholarly consensus has settled on approximately 4 million deaths, some experts argue that the death toll was several million more.

14. “Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine 1932-1933: Report to Congress, Commission on the Ukraine Famine” (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1988), 376, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00831044s&view=1up&seq=403.

15. HREC Education, “General Essay: The Holodomor, 1932-1933 The Genocidal Famine in Ukraine,” Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, accessed 1/10/2022, https://education.holodomor.ca/teaching-materials/general-essay/.

16. “Holodomor,” Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, accessed April 13, 2023, https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/holodomor.

17. Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2010), 50.

18. Robert Conquest, Reflections on a Ravaged Century (New York, NY: Norton, 2000), 116.

19. Elena Volkava, “The Kazakh Famine of 1930-33 and the Politics of History in the Post-Soviet Space,” Meeting Reports of the Kennan Institute,  https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-kazakh-famine-1930-33-and-the-politics-history-the-post-soviet-space.

20. Yuri Shapoval and Marta D. Olynyk, “The Holodomor: A Prologue to Repressions and Terror in Soviet Ukraine,” Harvard Ukranian Studies 43, no. 1/4, After the Holodomor: The Enduring Impact of the Great Famine on Ukraine (2008): 99, https://www.jstor.org/stable/23611468.

21. Anne Applebaum, “How Stalin Hid Ukraine’s Famine from the World,” The Atlantic, accessed April 15, 2023, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/red-famine-anne-applebaum-ukraine-soviet-union/542610/.

22. Walter Duranty, “Russians Hungry, But Not Starving,” New York Times, March 31, 1933, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/03/31/issue.html.

23. Walter Duranty, “Famine Toll Heavy in Southern Russia,” New York Times, August 24, 1933, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/08/24/issue.html.

24. A.W. Kliefoth, “Memorandum,” June 4, 1931, https://ukrainegenocide.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/A.W.Kliefoth-Memorandum.pdf.

25. United States Commission on the Ukraine Famine, “Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine 1932-33,” p. 170.

26. Applebaum, op. cit.

27. “Malcom Muggeridge,” Gareth Jones—hero of Ukraine, accessed April 15, 2023, https://www.garethjones.org/overview/muggeridge.htm.

28. Applebaum, op. cit.

29. James E. Mace, “The American Press and the Ukrainian Famine,” in Genocide Watch, ed. Helen Fain (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), 119-20.

30. Catherine Merridale, “The 1937 Census and the Limits of Stalinist Rule,” The Historical Journal 39, no. 1 (1996): 226-227,  https://www.jstor.org/stable/2639947.

31. Andrei Markevich, Natalya Naumenko, and Nancy Qian, “The Causes of Ukrainian Famine Mortality, 1923-1933,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 29089 (2021): 8,  https://www.nber.org/papers/w29089.

32. Letter from the collective farmer Mykola Reva to Joseph Stalin about the Famine of 1933 in Ukraine. In Rozsekrechena pam’iat’), trans. by Bohdan Klid (2007), 573–75, 576, https://holodomor.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/5.-Holodomor-survivors-MY.pdf.

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