It was only in the 1980s that the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine became the subject of serious academic study. The publication of Robert Conquest's ground-breaking The Harvest of Sorrow in 1986 focused attention on what has come to be known as the Holodomor. The pace of research accelerated in the wake of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, when archives that had been off limits became accessible. Issues that had once raised controversy such as whether the Ukrainian borders had been closed were resolved by documentary evidence. Careful demographic studies replaced intuitive estimates on population losses. In addition, the amount of survivor testimony expanded many times over. Yet many issues continue to be debated, such as the relation of the Holodomor to the general Soviet famine, intentionality, and the question of genocide.

With this context in mind, the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies partnered with several institutions to organize a conference examining what thirty years of scholarly work on the Famine has added to our understanding of Ukrainian history, Soviet history, communism, and genocide studies. The conference, held in September 2013 on the eightieth anniversary of the Holodomor, brought together specialists to discuss the impact in their fields of research and academic discourse on the Holodomor. This book contains the conference papers given by Norman Naimark, on genocide; Andrea Graziosi, on Soviet history; Franҫoise Thom, on Stalinism; Olga Andriewsky, on Ukrainian history; and Stanislav Kulchytsky, on communism. An introductory article by Frank Sysyn provides an overview of thirty years of research on the Holodomor.

This book is edited by Andrij Makuch, HREC associate director of research, and Frank E. Sysyn, professor of history at the University of Alberta and director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (University of Alberta). The papers first appeared in the journal East/Wast: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, edited by Oleh llnytzkyj.

• Preface … vii
• Sysyn F. Thirty Years of Research on the Holodomor: A Balance Sheet … 1
• Andriewsky O. Towards a Decentred History: The Study of the Holodomor and Ukrainian Historiography … 14
• Graziosi A. The Impact of Holodomor Studies on the Understanding of the USSR … 49
• Thom F. Reflections on Stalin and the Holodomor … 76
• Kul'chyts'kyi S. (Кульчицький С.) The Holodomor of 1932‒33: How and Why? … 88
• Naimark N. M. How the Holodomor Can Be Integrated into Our Understanding of Genocide … 112