Date of Award
2014
Publisher
North Dakota State University
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Awarded
Master of Arts (MA)
Program
History
Department
History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
College
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Faculty Advisor
Cox, John K.
Description
Famine spread across the Union of Social Soviet Republics in 1932 and 1933, a deadly though unanticipated consequence of Joseph Stalin's attempt in 1928 to build socialism in one country through massive industrialization and forced collectivization of agriculture known as the first Five-Year Plan. This study uses published documents, collections, correspondence, memoirs, secondary sources and new insight to analyze the famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine and other Soviet republics. It presents the major scholarly works on the famine, research that often mirrors the diverse views and bitter public disagreement over the issue of intentionality and the ultimate culpability of Soviet leadership. The original contribution of this study is in the analysis of newly published primary documents of the 1920s and 1930s from the Russian Presidential Archives, especially vis-à-vis the role of Stalin and his chief lieutenants at the center of power and the various representatives at the republic-level periphery.
Recommended Citation
Reisenauer, Troy Philip, "The Great Famine in Soviet Ukraine: Toward New Avenues of Inquiry into the Holodomor" (2014). History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. 23.
https://digitalcommons.ndsu.edu/hist-phil-rel-studies/23
Rights
NDSU Policy 190.6.2
Rights Link
https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf
Handle Identifier
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27445