The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining peasants in party-controlled "collective" farms. This was followed in 1932-33 by a "terror-famine," inflicted by the State on the ...
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The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining peasants in party-controlled "collective" farms. This was followed in 1932-33 by a "terror-famine," inflicted by the State on the collectivized peasants of the Ukraine and certain other areas by setting impossibly high grain quotas, removing every other source of food, and preventing help from outside--even from other areas of the Soviet Union--from reaching the starving populace. The death toll resulting from the actions described in this book was an estimated 14.5 million--more than the total number of deaths for all countries in World War I.Ambitious, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, The Harvest of Sorrow is a deeply moving testament to those who died, and will register in the Western consciousness a sense of the dark side of this century's history.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Third printing. Book is sharp cornered and clean but for a small stain (0.5"x0.25") at bottom of FFEP. Dust jacket in mylar shows age browning to all edges, but retains gloss and crispness.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x1x5; Sold as a nice reading copy only. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 412 pages, red quarter-cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat hard cover overall with minor shelf wear, binding solid, spine slightly canted, paper cream white but with light foxing to the fore-edges. In a very good, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.
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Very Good jacket. Signed. First Edition. Full number line. Signed by author on title page. Small amount of rippling (one-third of an inch) on bottom of back of spine. Light foxing to inside of covers only. Dust jacket shows mild wear to edges. Photocopy of news article on the book's release from the New York Times dated October 7, 1986, laid in.
