The Terror Famine in the Ukraine 1932-1933

Presentation Type

Poster/Portfolio

Presenter Major(s)

English

Mentor Information

Edward A Cole, colee@gvsu.edu

Department

History

Location

Henry Hall Atrium 61

Start Date

13-4-2011 12:00 PM

End Date

13-4-2011 1:00 PM

Keywords

Historical Perspectives

Abstract

The entire short history of the USSR was fraught with stories of terrorization people and mis-management by the Communist Party. In the period 1928 through 1934 the Soviet Government experimented to learn what the people could endure and what they would retaliate against. Propaganda and persuasion soon gave way to " dekulakization" and coercion in order to make the peasantry give up the automonmous village and replace it with the state-run collective farm. Finally, the Red Broom resulted in mass starvation and by 1934 the surviving peasants were almost totally collectivized. In the process of working out a successful policy, terror became one of the few constants of the regime, and hunger one of its most successful tactics. It is therefore reasonable and just to call the great 1932-1933 famine in the Ukraine and elsewhere in the USSR a "terror-famine."

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The Terror Famine in the Ukraine 1932-1933

Henry Hall Atrium 61

The entire short history of the USSR was fraught with stories of terrorization people and mis-management by the Communist Party. In the period 1928 through 1934 the Soviet Government experimented to learn what the people could endure and what they would retaliate against. Propaganda and persuasion soon gave way to " dekulakization" and coercion in order to make the peasantry give up the automonmous village and replace it with the state-run collective farm. Finally, the Red Broom resulted in mass starvation and by 1934 the surviving peasants were almost totally collectivized. In the process of working out a successful policy, terror became one of the few constants of the regime, and hunger one of its most successful tactics. It is therefore reasonable and just to call the great 1932-1933 famine in the Ukraine and elsewhere in the USSR a "terror-famine."