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Conquest has a terrible story to tell. He examines Stalin's assault on the Soviet peasantry at the end of the 1920s and, in particular, his genocideno other word will doof the Ukrainian people in the human-made famine of 1932-33. His horrific details, drawn from Soviet as well as Western sources, lead Conquest to conclude that as many as 14.5 million died in the years 1930-37 as a result of Stalin's terror against the peasantry: five million came from the Ukraine alone. These facts, and the ghastly details behind them, are not widely known in the West. In addition, they are officially denied by the Soviets to this day. This account by a leading scholar should help to make the story better known. R.H. Johnston, History Dept., McMaster Univ . , Hamilton, Ontario
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Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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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 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.
Ambitious, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, The Harvest of Sorrow is a deeply moving testament to those who died, and will register in the Western consciousness a sense of the dark side of this century's history.
Ambitious, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, The Harvest of Sorrow is a deeply moving testament to those who died, and will register in the Western consciousness a sense of the dark side of this century's history.
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At the beginning of 1927, the Soviet peasant, whether Russian, Ukrainian, or of other nationality, had good reason to look forward to a tolerable future. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Robert Conquest's Harvest of Sorrow is an essential book for students of Russia and 20th Century Stalinist Russia. This must read book depicts in comprehensive detail the acts with the facts concerning Stalins's starvation politics in Russia and particularly the Ukraine. In order to know, to have a real understanding of Stalin's legacy in today's political scene, e.g. Iraq, Sudan, the Balkans etc., everyone should read this book and recognize the murderous atrocities that we, 21st Century citizens of the world, are allowing to go on today without reaction or even outraged protest. Conquest describes it all: the oppression, the leveraged inculcation of doctrine, the deprivation of life sustaining food, the functionary thugs carrying out Stalin's mass murder scheme, the deaths, the cannabalism, all the horrors of this totalitarian madman's wicked will. It is painful at time to read this book but it inspires the reader with wisdom and knowledge to react intolerantly against today's political monsters like Saddam or the Balkan ethnic hate mongers. My only negative criticism of the book is of Mr. Conquests writing style. He is at time awkward and cumbersome in his syntax. Sometimes he is obtuse in his phrasing. The style did hinder the ease of reading the book (though it contains no an easy subject matter to relax with) but I would read it again without hesitation. This is one book that should be mandatory reading for students in high school and especially college studentd, particularly for political science majors.
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Dr. Conquest's history of the Ukrainian famine is relentless and emotionally affecting. He indicts the regimes of Lenin and Stalin cogently, yet the prose never screeches with anger or outrage, and this forces home the facts all the more effectively. The first third of the book is at times frustrating, as Dr. Conquest tends to refer to a number of persons or incidences without providing any background for the uninformed reader, and the notes are rather poor, but this is a potent work of history and a superb indictment of not only the practitioners of communism in the Soviet Union, but also of the fatally flawed philosophy of communism itself.
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It had to be one more million than the Holocaust
This book is a travesty- a carefully crafted political document masquerading as history. The victims of this supposed Stalinist-caused Ukranian famine had to number 7 million to... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Mai 2000 von Jeffrey L. Thurston
Disturbing
Robert Conquest at his best, chronicling a deeply harrowing tragedy. What I find most disturbing about the Terror-Famine is that the gruesome details are still relatively... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Oktober 1999 von Stephen Wotton
History writing at its very best
I did not believe Eastern European friends and dissidents who told me 20 years ago about the mass murder by starvation, deportation, and shooting of the Ukrainian peasantry in the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Oktober 1999 von Andreas Muenchow (andreas@ahab.rutgers.edu)
Grim going.
Much is still said about the Nazi houlocaust, and well that it should be. Little seems to be said about the millions that Stalin and his fellow garbage starved and shot to death in... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Riveting portrayal Soviet genocide of the Ukrainian nation.
A riveting portrayal of the man-made genocidal famine in Soviet Ukraine, organized by Stalin and his henchmen, this book marks the epitome of the research and writings of noted... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
How did it happen? The Soviet Union's real story.
"Harvest of Sorrow" is an important book for any age. Meticulous, rich with history, but refreshingly straight-on; Conquest knows and writes of the Soviet Union in a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. August 1998 von Mountain Poet
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