FOREWORD

It is wholly appropriate that this publication be issued at this time. Fifty years ago — during the winter, spring, and early summer of 1933 — the southern portion of the Soviet Union was ravaged by one of the worst famines of all time. Yet it remains barely known today outside of the Ukrainian community. In 1935, Adam J. Tawdul, an American bom in Omsk who had spent the years from 1931 to 1933 in the region, wrote with great prescience:"... it will be a long time before the full story of that singular calamity — singular because of its unnatural causes — is presented to the world”. Even now, no definitive work exists on the famine, although, lam pleased to note, two most promising books are in preparation (one by Robert Conquest and James Mace under the auspices of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard, and the other by Marco Carynnyk of Toronto).

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• FOREWORD …  5
• INTRODUCTION …  10

PART ONE

• 1. Ukraine — Source of Trouble and Unrest for Soviet Russian Imperialism …  15
• 2. Goals and Methods of Collectivization and Its Severity in Ukraine …  18

PART TWO

• 3. Party and Government Measures During the Man-Made Ukraine …  23
• 4. Destruction of Ukraine’s Population on Genocidal Level …  31

PART THREE

• 5. Official Soviet Attitude Toward the Famine …  37
• 6. Reports by Ukrainian and Foreign Witnesses …  39

PART FOUR

• 7. World Reaction to the Man-Made Famine …  45
• 8. Ukrainians Outside Ukraine and Worldwide Protests …  47
• CONCLUSION …  50
• FOOTNOTES …  51
• BIBLIOGRAPHY …  54
• AUTHORS AND ACKNOWLEGMENT …  56