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The Famine of 1932-33 in the Discussion of Russian-Ukrainian Relations
Meletij Smotryc'kyj. By David A. Frick. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1995. Dist. Harvard University Press, xx, 396 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Maps.
East Central Europe in Transition: From the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century. Edited by Antoni Mączak, Henryk Samsonowicz, and Peter Burke . Studies in Modern Capitalism, Past and Present Publications. Cambridge, London, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, and Sydney: Cambridge University Press, and Paris; Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1985. 207 pp. Figures. Maps. Tables. $39.50, cloth.
Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century. By John-Paul Himka. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. xxxvi, 358 pp. Maps. Photographs. Tables. $45.00, cloth.
Communism and Hunger: Introduction
Over the past two decades, important studies of the famines in the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China have transformed our understanding of these events and laid the groundwork for the first attempts at comparative analysis. Nevertheless, the great twentieth-century famines caused by state policies remain relatively little studied. We still lack a systematic comparison of their features, at least in part because of the difficulty in conceptualizing the possibility of man-made famine in modern times and because a topic like “Communism and Hunger” may seem to be a contradiction in terms. Yet even a simple list of the past century’s major famines suggests that the topic is badly in need of attention..