The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine

Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written. More deaths resulted from the actions described in this book than from the whole of the First World War. Epic in scope and rich in detail, The Harvest of Sorrow describes how millions of peasants in the USSR were dispossessed and deported as a result of the abolition of private property, and how millions in the newly established ‘collective’ farms of the Ukraine and other regions were then deliberately starved to death through impossibly high quotas, the removal of all other sources of food and their isolation from outside help. With the publication of this and his earlier book, The Great Terror , which revealed the truth about Stalin’s political purges, Robert Conquest revealed to the West the staggering human cost of the Soviet regime. Contents Preface to the 2002 Edition Preface Introduction Part I. The Protagonists: Party, Peasants and Nation 1 The Peasants and the Parly 2 The Ukrainian Nationality and Leninism 3 Revolution, Peasant War and Famine, 1917-21 4 Stalemate, 1921-7 Part II. To Crush the Peasantry 5 Collision Course, 1928-9 6 The Fate of the ‘Kulaks’ 7 Crash Collevtivization and its Defeat, January-March 1930 8 The End of the Free Peasantry, 1930-32 9 Central Asia and the Kazakh Tragedy 10 The Churches and the People Part III. The Terror-Famine 11 Assaulton the Ukraine, 1930-32 12 The Famine Rages 13 A Land Laid Waste 14 Kuban, Don, and Volga 15 Children 16 The Death Roll 17 The Record of the West 18 Responsibilities Epilogue: The Aftermath Notes Select Bibliography Index **Robert Conquest's __The Harvest of Sorrow__ helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written.**__The Harvest of Sorrow____The Great Terror__ "Described as "the worst human disaster in living memory" and "Stalin's most monstrous act," the shocking details of this strategically inflicted terror-famine are meticulously documented by Robert Conquest."-- Provided by publisher