The Harvest of Sorrow

Posted on 14 August 2017 by Robert Conquest

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 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. New Read [ The Harvest of Sorrow ] Author [ Robert Conquest ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Page 299 my book Khrushchev quote No one was keeping count This is about one of theappalling episodes in the history of the Soviet Union under Stalin The centerpiece is the treatment of the ethnic and farming communities in Ukraine during 1929 to 1934.By following the dogma of Marxism Leninism class war was declared on the so called rich farmers of Ukraine labeled as kulaks The definition of kulak varied it could be a peasant farmer who owned a horse or two, a pig or two, who employe Page 299 my book Khrushchev quote No one was keeping count This is about one of theappalling episodes in the history of the Soviet Union under Stalin The centerpiece is the treatment of the ethnic and farming communities in Ukraine during 1929 to 1934.By following the dogma of Marxism Leninism class war was declared on the so called rich farmers of Ukraine labeled as kulaks The definition of kulak varied it could be a peasant farmer who owned a horse or two, a pig or two, who empl...Hitler was a piker compared with Joseph Stalin Stalin created the gulags in the 1920 s, and created a man made famine to eliminate most of the population of the Ukraine who refused get aboard his economic plan This work is one of the pieces of evidence proving thatpeople on this earth were murdered in the name of State Communism than from any other single ideology Mao, Pol Pot, and all of the other State sponsored secular tyrants learned their trade from Stalin Stalin alone probably mu Hitler was a piker compared with Joseph Stalin Stalin created the gulags in the 1920 s, and created a man made famine to eliminate most of the population of ...This book was banned in Canada when it first came out I had to have it It is such a gut wrenching account of how people were forced into collectives, forced to endure famine and hardships that were hidden from the western world The world knew one history of that time period but the reality, hidden by the Soviets, was another entirely It isn t a book fo...The importance of this book is that it finally silenced those who denied that there had been a man made famine in the Ukraine betweem 1929 and 1932 Within 5 years of its publication in 1986, the overwhelming major of academic historians in the West were willing to acknowledge that there had indeed been a Ukrainian Holocaust From the 1930s to the early 1980s communist intellectuals and fellow travellers in the West had essentially succeeded in convincing the public that the stories of the fam The importance of this book is that it finally silenced those who denied that there had been a man made famine in the Ukraine betweem 1929 and 1932 Within 5 years of its publication in 1986, the overwhelming major of academic historians in the West were willing to acknowledge that there had indeed been a Ukrainian Holocaust From the 1930s to the early 1980s communist intellectuals and fellow travellers in the West had essentially succeeded in convincing the public that the stories of the famine were lurid lies peddled by angry, Slavic expatriate...A classic and a vital part of anyone s library on 20th c Russia A horrifying account of what Stalin and the Party apparatus never never never think it was all Stalin alone did to the Russian peasantry as part of forced industrialisation crushing the peasantry in order to extract the surplus that would feed the cities and the workers needed for the manic industrial growth projected under the 5 Year Plans, exporting grain to pay for building up Soviet industry even while the countrysi A classic and a vital part of anyone s library on 20th c Russia A horrifying account of what Stalin and the Party apparatus never never never think it was all Stalin alone did to the Russian peasantry as part of forced industrialisation crushing the peasantry in order to extract the surplus that would feed the cities and the workers needed for the manic industrial growth projected under the 5 Year Plans, exporting grain to pay for building up Soviet industry even while the countryside starved, shattering by main force and te...I m a person of Ukrainian descent on both parents sides of the family I first learned about this horrific event in 2nd year university when I took a course on Poland and Ukraine As much as people blame Stalin and he is to blame for most things, but this didn t just happen in Ukraine and be careful not to say the Ukraine It isn t a province, it s a country but it happened in Russia itself There wasn t just dekulakization in Ukraine It happened in the farm lands in Russia as well Conquest I m a person of Ukrainian descent on both parents sides of the family I first learned about this horrific event in 2nd year university when I took a course o...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, 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 s...This is a history of the famine in the Ukraine brought about by Stalin s collectivization program and enforced by terror It is a horrible story and that is both depressing and still little known today Conquest is a superb writer and the book is captivating to read even as it is difficult There are other treatments of this series of events, such as Bloodlands, that place it in context with other atrocities of the time There is even an emerging genre of these events, such as histories of the I This is a history of the famine in the Ukraine brought about by Stalin s collectivization program and enforced by terror It is a horrible story and that is both depressing and still little known today Conquest is a superb writer and the book is captivating to read even as it is difficult There are other treatments of this series of events, such as...It is a curious thing, but the public schools do not teach anything about this subject in their history classes This book should be required reading It is not an easy read any way you look at it, but it is an important book Please pick it up and give it a read.The best description of Stalin s forced collectivization of agriculture arguably the most monstrous crime of a monstrous century.

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14 August 2017

Robert Conquest