December 24, 2015

Scholarly papers from conference on Ukrainian Famine studies

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In 2013, the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies(CIUS) partnered with several institutions to organize a conference to examine what 30 years of scholarly work on the Holodomor, the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933, has added to the understanding of Ukrainian history, Soviet history, communism and genocide studies.

The papers presented at that conference, held on September 27-28, 2013, at the University of Toronto, have been collected in “Contextualizing the Holodomor: The Impact of Thirty Years of Ukrainian Famine Studies.”

This important collection includes, as background to its contents, Frank Sysyn’s article “Thirty Years of Research on the Holodomor: A Balance Sheet.” Dr. Sysyn (University of Alberta) notes the significance and impact of Robert Conquest’s book “The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine,” which appeared in 1986, noting that it “posed a major challenge to the Soviets and their supporters in the West.” He goes on to describe the reactions to Dr. Conquest’s landmark book and notes that it engendered academic discussion of the Ukrainian Famine.

Included in the newly released book are: “Towards a Decentered History: The Study of the Holodomor and Ukrainian Historiography” by Olga Andriewsky (Trent University); “The Impact of Holodomor Studies on the Understanding of the USSR” by Andrea Graziosi (University of Naples Federico II); “Reflections of Stalin and the Holodomor: by Francoise Thom (Paris-Sorbonne University); “The Holodomor of 1932-1933: How and Why?” by Stanislav Kulchytsky (Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences); and “How the Holodomor Can Be Integrated into Our Understanding of Genocide” by Norman Naimark (Stanford University).

“Contextualizing the Holodomor: The Impact of Thirty Years of Ukrainian Famine Studies,” was launched on October 22 at the international symposium on “Starvation as a Political Tool from the 19th to the 21st Century.”

The book is available from the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, www.ciuspress.com. Its printing was made possible by Ian Ihnatowycz and Marta Witer through the Ihnatowycz Family Foundation.

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