The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 5
The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture 1931-1933
2004
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This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. It is the first volume in English to make extensive use of Russian and Ukrainian central and local archives to assess the extent and causes of the famine. It reaches new conclusions on how far the famine was "organized" or "artificial," and compares it with other Russian and Soviet famines and with major twentieth century famines elsewhere. Against this background, it discusses the emergence of collective farming as an economic and social system.
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Robert William Davies
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Robert William Davies was a British historian, writer and professor of Soviet Economic Studies at the University of Birmingham. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Commerce and Social Science from the University of Birmingham.
