Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust - Couverture souple

Dolot, Miron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393304167 ISBN 13 : 9780393304169

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1987

Synopsis

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.<br /> <br /> 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Miron Dolot is a teacher of Slavic languages and lives in California. As a teenager he lived through the famine forced upon the Ukranian people by Joseph Stalin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393304167
• ISBN 13: 9780393304169
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible