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Book The Foreign Office and the Famine

Download or read book The Foreign Office and the Famine written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (copy 1) From the Johns Holmes Library collection.

Book The Foreign Office and the Famine

Download or read book The Foreign Office and the Famine written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Red Famine

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  • Author : Anne Applebaum
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2017-10-10
  • ISBN : 0385538863
  • Pages : 587 pages

Download or read book Red Famine written by Anne Applebaum and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more—from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain. "With searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to eradicate 'backwardness' when undertaken by a regime in a state of war with its own people." —The Economist In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. Applebaum’s compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the twenty-first.

Book Commission on the Ukraine Famine Act

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Operations
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Commission on the Ukraine Famine Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Operations and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ukrainian Famine of 1932 and 1933

Download or read book Ukrainian Famine of 1932 and 1933 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Famine in Africa

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  • Author : Foreign and Commonwealth Office
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Famine in Africa written by Foreign and Commonwealth Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Famine in Africa

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Famine in Africa written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stalin s Nomads

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  • Author : Robert Kindler
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2018-07-31
  • ISBN : 0822986140
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Stalin s Nomads written by Robert Kindler and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Kindler's seminal work is a comprehensive and unsettling account of the Soviet campaign to forcefully sedentarize and collectivize the Kazakh clans. Viewing the nomadic life as unproductive, and their lands unused and untilled, Stalin and his inner circle pursued a campaign of violence and subjugation, rather than attempting any dialog or cultural assimilation. The results were catastrophic, as the conflict and an ensuing famine (1931-1933) caused the death of nearly one-third of the Kazakh population. Hundreds of thousands of nomads became refugees and a nomadic culture and social order were essentially destroyed in less than five years. Kindler provides an in-depth analysis of Soviet rule, economic and political motivations, and the role of remote and local Soviet officials and Kazakhs during the crisis. This is the first English-language translation of an important and harrowing history, largely unknown to Western audiences prior to Kindler’s study. The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International – Translation Funding for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG WORT and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association).

Book First Report from the Foreign Affairs Committee  Session 1987 88

Download or read book First Report from the Foreign Affairs Committee Session 1987 88 written by Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conflict and Famine in the Horn of Africa

Download or read book Conflict and Famine in the Horn of Africa written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Famine in Ethiopia

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book Famine in Ethiopia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book War and Famine in the Sudan

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book War and Famine in the Sudan written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Famine in Ukraine  1932 1933

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  • Author : Roman Serbyn
  • Publisher : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies University of Alberta
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Famine in Ukraine 1932 1933 written by Roman Serbyn and published by Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies University of Alberta. This book was released on 1986 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Russian Job

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  • Author : Douglas Smith
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2019-11-05
  • ISBN : 0374718385
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book The Russian Job written by Douglas Smith and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia seems impossible to imagine—and yet, as Douglas Smith reveals, it has a forgotten but astonishing historical precedent. In 1921, facing one of the worst famines in history, the new Soviet government under Vladimir Lenin invited the American Relief Administration, Herbert Hoover’s brainchild, to save communist Russia from ruin. For two years, a small, daring band of Americans fed more than ten million men, women, and children across a million square miles of territory. It was the largest humanitarian operation in history—preventing the loss of countless lives, social unrest on a massive scale, and, quite possibly, the collapse of the communist state. Now, almost a hundred years later, few in either America or Russia have heard of the ARA. The Soviet government quickly began to erase the memory of American charity. In America, fanatical anti-communism would eclipse this historic cooperation with the Soviet Union. Smith resurrects the American relief mission from obscurity, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey from the heights of human altruism to the depths of human depravity. The story of the ARA is filled with political intrigue, espionage, the clash of ideologies, violence, adventure, and romance, and features some of the great historical figures of the twentieth century. In a time of cynicism and despair about the world’s ability to confront international crises, The Russian Job is a riveting account of a cooperative effort unmatched before or since.

Book Famine in Africa

Download or read book Famine in Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Famine Crimes

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  • Author : Alexander De Waal
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780253211583
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Famine Crimes written by Alexander De Waal and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is responsible for the failures? African generals and politicians are the prime culprits for creating famines in Sudan, Somalia and Zaire, but western donors abet their authoritarianism, partly through imposing structural adjustment programmes.

Book Late Victorian Holocausts

Download or read book Late Victorian Holocausts written by Mike Davis and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants' lives.