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History of Ukraine: Famine of 1932-33 (Holodomor)

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Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

New York: Basic Books, 2010
ISBN 978-0465002399

A history of the killing of fourteen million people by the totalitarian regimes of Stalin and Hitler, including an account of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine.

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More Than a Grain of Truth. The Biography of Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones

Margaret Siriol Colley

Nigel Colley, 2005
ISBN 0953700119

Gareth Jones was one of the first Western journalists to report truthfully on the great famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine.

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Famine-Genocide in Ukraine 1932-1933. Western Archives, Testimonies and New Research

Edited by Wsevolod W. Isajiw

Toronto: Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre, 2003
ISBN 0-921537-56-5

The book analyses documents about the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine found in Western and Russian archives, including reports, sent by the German, Italian, and British consulates to their governments, which indicate that the famine was brought about intentionally by the Soviet government. The book also examines witness testimonies collected in independent Ukraine and in the West. It shows the pressure exerted by the Soviet regime on the Western press to deny the famine and the willingness of some reporters to comply.

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The Foreign Office and the Famine. British Documents on Ukraine and the Great Famine of 1932-1933

Marco Carynnyk, Lubomyr Y. Luciuk and Bohdan S. Kordan (eds)

Kingston, Ontario - Vestal, New York: The Limestone Press, 1988
ISBN 0-919642-29-2

A collection of 85 documents, primarily from the archives of the British Foreign Office, relating to the politically engineered famine that swept Ukraine, the North Caucasus and Central Asia in 1932-33, including first-hand reports by diplomats, journalists, agricultural experts and victims of the famine.

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The Harvest of Sorrow. Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine

Robert Conquest

London - Melbourne - Auckland - Johannesburg: Hutchinson, 1986
ISBN 0-09-163750-3

The first full account of events which took place in 1929-1933 in Ukraine and other parts of the Soviet Union which led to millions of deaths: the 'dekulakisation' and collectivisation of the peasantry and the subsequent terror-famine.

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The Ninth Circle. In Commemoration of the Victims of the Famine of 1933

Olexa Woropay

Cambridge MA: Ukrainian Studies Fund, Harvard University, 1983
ISBN 0-9609822-0-5

An eye-witness account of the 1933 man-made famine in Ukraine. The author, a Ukrainian ethnographer and writer, was born in 1913 in Odesa and died in 1989 in the UK.