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Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor - Couverture souple

Gamache, Ray

 
9781860571282: Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 186057128X ISBN 13 : 9781860571282
Editeur : Welsh Academic Press, 2018

Synopsis

Gareth Jones (1905-1934), the young Welsh investigative journalist, is revered in Ukraine as a national hero and is now rightly recognised as the first reporter to reveal the horror of the Holodomor, the Soviet Government-induced famine of the early 1930s, which killed millions of Ukrainians.

Gareth Jones - Eyewitness to the Holodomor is a meticulous study of the efforts made by the the Aberystwyth and Cambridge-educated journalist, a fluent Russian-speaker, to investigate the Soviet Government s denials, that its Five Year Plan had led to mass starvation, by visiting Ukraine in 1933 and reporting what he saw and witnessed: 'I walked along through villages and twelve collective farms. Everywhere was the cry, 'There is no bread. We are dying''.

Determined to alert the world to the suffering in Ukraine and to expose Stalin s policies and prejudices towards the Ukrainian people, Jones published numerous articles in the UK (The Times, Daily Express and Western Mail) and the USA (New York Evening News and Chicago Daily News) with headlines such as Famine Grips Russia. Millions Dying , but soon saw his credibility and integrity attacked and denigrated by Soviet sympathizers, most famously by Moscow-based Walter Duranty of the New York Times.

Gareth Jones was killed by bandits the following year, on the eve of his 30th birthday, whilst travelling in Japanese-controlled China. There remain strong suspicions that Jones murder was arranged by the Soviets in revenge for his eyewitness reporting which brought global attention to the Holodomor.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ray Gamache was Assistant Professor of Journalism in the Dept of Mass Communications at King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He is now retired and lives in South Portland, Maine.

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Éditeur
Welsh Academic Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
186057128X
ISBN 13 
9781860571282
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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