Anne Applebaum
RED FAMINE
Contents
Introduction: The Ukrainian Question
1 The Ukrainian Revolution, 1917
2 Rebellion, 1919
3 Famine and Truce, the 1920s
4 The Double Crisis, 1927–9
5 Collectivization: Revolution in the Countryside, 1930
6 Rebellion, 1930
7 Collectivization Fails, 1931–2
8 Famine Decisions, 1932: Requisitions, Blacklists and Borders
9 Famine Decisions, 1932: The End of Ukrainization
10 Famine Decisions, 1932: The Searches and the Searchers
11 Starvation: Spring and Summer, 1933
12 Survival: Spring and Summer, 1933
13 Aftermath
14 The Cover-Up
15 The Holodomor in History and Memory
Epilogue: The Ukrainian Question Reconsidered
ЖepTBaм
To the victims
List of Illustrations
1
. Ukrainian Declaration of Independence, 9 January 1918.
2
. Cover of
, 1918, by Heorhiy Narbut.
3
. Independence rally in Kyiv, 1917.
4
. Mykhailo Hrushevsky.
5
. Cover of Hrushevsky’s
(1917).
6
. Symon Petliura and Józef Piłsudski, Stanyslaviv, 1920.
7
. Nestor Makhno.
8
. Pavlo Skoropadsky.
9
. Oleksandr Shumskyi.
10
. Mykola Skrypnyk.
11
. Grigorii Petrovskii.
12
. Vsevelod Balytsky.
13
. Auction of kulak property.
14
. Kulak family on their way to exile.
15
. Confiscating icons, Kharkiv.
16
. Discarded churchbells, Zhytomyr.
17
. Peasants besides the ruins of a burned house.
18
. Women vote to join a collective farm.
19
. Peasants listening to the radio.
20
. Peasant family reading
21
. Harvesting tomatoes.
22
. ‘Volunteers’ bringing in the harvest.
23–24. Searchers find grain hidden from requisitions.
25
. Guarding fields.
26
. Guarding grain stores.
27
. Peasants leaving home in search of food.
28
. An abandoned peasant house.
29
. People starving by the side of the road.
30
. A starving family.
31
. Peasant girl.
32–33. Breadlines in Kharkiv.
34–37. Famine in Kharkiv, spring 1933.
38–39. A starving man, alive and then dead.
40–41. A family in Chernihiv, before and after the famine.
42
. ‘Famine Rules Russia’, Gareth Jones,
, 31 March 1933.
43
. Walter Duranty dining in Moscow.
44
. ‘Russians Hungry but not Starving’, Walter Duranty,
, 31 March 1933.
45
. Lazar Kaganovich, Joseph Stalin, Pavlo Postyshev and Klement Voroshilov, 1934.
46
. Mass grave outside Kharkiv, 1933.
List of Maps
The Historical Evolution of the Territory of Ukraine
Ukraine, 1922
Physical Geography of Ukraine, 1932
Famine, 1932–4
A Note on Transliteration
The transliteration of Ukrainian names and place names in this book follows the standard set out by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. The Library of Congress transliteration rules for Ukrainian names and place names are followed strictly in the endnotes; in the text, names and place names are written without primes, since that seems more familiar to an English reader. Russian and Belarusian place names are transliterated according to the rules of those languages. A few well-known names and place names, including Moscow and Odessa, have been left in their better-known forms, also to make them recognizable to English-language readers.