Seeking Historical Truth: the International Commission of Inquiry into the 1932-33 Famine in Ukraine
In: Dalhousie Law Journal, Jg. 24 (2001-10-01), S. 139
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I. The Ukrainian Famine 1. The Diaspora When the Ukrainian Republic declared its sovereignty 1 on July 16, 1990, there were approximately four million Ukrainians and their descendants living abroad. This diaspora 2 took place at the turn of the century and in the aftermath of the two World Wars. The first wave of Ukrainians left Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the late 19th century and some came later from Russia as a result of Tsarist persecution and the troubles of 1905. The second wave left after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War and the collapse of the independent Ukrainian republic, which had enjoyed only a brief and unstable existence, in 1921. 3 The situation of the people was exacerbated by the major famine of 1920-1921. Between the wars, the Ukrainian people were subjected to a number of Soviet policies aimed at denationalism and dekulakization. Stalin attempted to curb and eliminate the nationalistic tendencies of the many non-ethnic Russian peoples who made up the Soviet Union. In the Ukraine the Kulaks (or Kurkuls in Ukrainian) were a class of well-to-do peasants who owned their own land. Beginning in 1931 many of these Kulaks were deported to create the necessary climate for the collectivization of farms. The Ukraine, the granary of the Soviet Union, was also subject to grain quotas that were used for redistribution elsewhere in the country, for storage for military purposes, or for export. The population of the Ukraine was subjected to ...
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Seeking Historical Truth: the International Commission of Inquiry into the 1932-33 Famine in Ukraine
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Hobbins, A.J. |
Zeitschrift: | Dalhousie Law Journal, Jg. 24 (2001-10-01), S. 139 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2001 |
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