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Article: The Years of Hunger.(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933. R.W. Davies and Stephen G. Wheatcroft. Palgrave Macmillan. [pounds sterling]85.00. xvii + 555 pages. ISBN 0-333-31107-8. This, the fifth volume in Palgrave's impressive series, The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, tackles one of the greatest disasters in the Communists' attempts to establish their socialist utopia based on a command economy. The great famine of this period was hushed up as far as possible by Stalin but now with the opening of some of the USSR's archives a fuller story is possible. This study complements that of Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow, published in 1986, by shifting the focus to the ...
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