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The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining peasants in party-controlled "collective" farms. This was followed in 1932-33 by a "terror-famine," inflicted by the State on the collectivized peasants of the Ukraine and certain other areas by setting impossibly high grain quotas, removing every other source of food, and preventing help from outside--even from other areas of the Soviet Union--from reaching the starving populace. The death toll resulting from the actions described in this book was an estimated 14.5 million--more than the total number of deaths for all countries in World War I.

Ambitious, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, The Harvest of Sorrow is a deeply moving testament to those who died, and will register in the Western consciousness a sense of the dark side of this century's history.

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At the beginning of 1927, the Soviet peasant, whether Russian, Ukrainian, or of other nationality, had good reason to look forward to a tolerable future.

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The first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century, The Harvest of Sorrow examines the atrocities inflicted on the Russian peasantry by the Soviet Communist party between 1929 and 1933.

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  • Title The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
  • Author Robert Conquest
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 430
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
  • Publication date 1987-11-12
  • ISBN 9780195051803 / 0195051807
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.1 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1920's
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Category History - General History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 947

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Robert Conquest is Senior Research Fellow and Scholar-Curator of the East European Collection at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of numerous books on Soviet studies and has published poetry, criticism, and fiction.
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