Execution by Hunger

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The Hidden Holocaust

By Miron Dolot

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Execution by Hunger is a harrowing eyewitness account by Miron Dolot of the Ukrainian famine following Stalin's 1929 collectivization policy. As Soviet forces confiscated food and terrorised villages, millions of Ukrainians suffered starvation. Dolot recounts his youth amid this despair, witnessing arrests, abuse, and the crushing Soviet control, while maintaining personal dignity in unimaginable hardship. The book serves as a powerful indictment of a tragic Soviet chapter still denied by contemporary Russian authorities.
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This book is essential for readers interested in 20th-century history, Soviet policies, and human rights. It appeals to those seeking a personal perspective on historical tragedies and the struggles of oppressed peoples.

Seven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks.

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In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine, as many as seven million Ukrainians starved to death.

This poignant eyewitness account of the Ukrainian famine by one of the survivors relates the young Miron Dolot's day-to-day confrontation with despair and death—his helplessness as friends and family were arrested and abused—and his gradual realization, as he matured, of the absolute control the Soviets had over his life and the lives of his people. But it is also the story of personal dignity in the face of horror and humiliation. And it is an indictment of a chapter in the Soviet past that is still not acknowledged by Russian leaders.

Execution by Hunger is both a moving personal narrative and a powerful historical document.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393304169

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 June 1987

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 188.0mm

Weight: 198g

Pages: 248

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Education & Reference European History History & Archaeology History & Military Military History Miron Dolot Non-Fiction

About the Author

Miron Dolot is a teacher of Slavic languages and lives in California. As a teenager he lived through the famine forced upon the Ukranian people by Joseph Stalin.