Communism and Hunger : The Ukrainian, Chinese, Kazakh, and Soviet Famines in Comparative Perspective

Graziosi, Andrea (EDT); Sysyn, Frank E. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1894865472 / ISBN 13: 9781894865470

Edité par University of Alberta Press, 2016

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Communism and Hunger : The Ukrainian, Chinese, Kazakh, and Soviet Famines in Comparative Perspective
• Éditeur: University of Alberta Press
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1894865472
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781894865470
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Leading specialists examine the affinities and differences between the pan-Sot famine of 1931–1933, the Ukrainian Holodomor, the Kazakh great hunger, and the famine in China in 1959–1961. The first three articles deal with famine within a single state or Sot republic and the remaining three offer comparative perspectives. With increased access to archives, scholars now have a sense of the dynamics, demographic impact, and consequences of the great political famines of the twentieth century, unleashed by Communist parties endowed with centralized planning mechanisms that they believed they could control and manipulate. In exploring the commonalities and specificities of the massive famines produced by the two largest Communist states, the authors also set forth numerous hypotheses and agendas for future research. Contributors: Lucien Bianco, Sarah Cameron, Rona Andrea Graziosi, Niccola Pianciola, Nicholas Werth, Zhou Xun

À propos des auteurs

Andrea Graziosi is President of the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research and a professor of history at the Università di Napoli Federico II.

Frank E. Sysyn is Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project. He is a co-editor of Culture, Nation and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter, 1600–1945 (2003), the author of Between Poland and Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600–1653 (1985), and Mykhailo Hrushevsky: Historian and National Awakener (2001).