The Harvest of Sorrow
Author | : Robert Conquest |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1986 |
ISBN-10 | : 0195051807 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780195051803 |
Rating | : 4/5 (803 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Harvest of Sorrow by : Robert Conquest
Download or read book The Harvest of Sorrow written by Robert Conquest and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants; abolished privately held land and forced the remaining peasantry into "collective" farms; and inflicted impossible grain quotas on the peasants that resulted in mass starvation.