Documenting the Famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine: Archival Collections on the Holodomor Outside the Former Soviet Union

by Myroslav Shkandrij (Editor)

Overview

This collection of articles breaks new ground in Holodomor scholarship, presenting archival sources that in many cases are little known or completely unexplored. The articles are organized in four sections: new explorations of archival collections; responses of Western governments to events in Ukraine in 1932-33; the international response to the Famine; and perspectives for future exploration. Researchers share their knowledge of the archives of foreign affairs ministries in countries that maintained diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in the 1930s, including Japan and the United States. Other researchers report on the archives of immigrant and diaspora communities that emigrated from Soviet Ukraine to Western Europe and North America. The Ukrainian, Jewish, and Mennonite communities in particular maintained contact with individuals in Soviet Ukraine, and surviving materials cast new light on the events of 1932–33. A number of articles describe newspaper coverage in France, Canada, and the United States, and several explore overlooked collections of oral interviews. The volume builds upon and augments research already accomplished and indicates promising future avenues of investigation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781894865685
Publisher:	University of Alberta Press
Publication date:	08/15/2023
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Myroslav Shkandrij is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He has authored several books, including Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times (2001), Jews in Ukrainian Literature: Representation and Identity (2009), Avant-garde Art in Ukraine: Contested Memory, 1910–1930 (2019), and Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917–2017: Flashpoints in History and Contemporary Memory Wars (2020).

Table of Contents

• Preface vii
• Collectivization and Famine in Ukraine in US Department of State Documents, 1929–34 / Andrii BOLIANOVSKYI 1
• Representations of the 1932–33 Ukrainian Famine in the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive / Inna GOGINA 24
• Toward a Social History of the Holodomor and its Aftermath: Famine Survivor Testimonies in the Archive of the US Commission on the Ukraine Famine / John VSETECKA 47
• History as a Narrative of the People: The Maniak Collection as a Source for the Social and Cultural History of the Holodomor / Olga KLYMENKO 68
• The Holodomor in the Light of Japanese Documents / Hiroaki KUROMIYA 110
• Perspectives on the Mennonite Experience during the Holodomor
• (1932–33): Resources in North American Archives and Libraries / Colin P. NEUFELDT 120
• New Research on Government Responses
• Bearing Witness to the Holodomor: Eyewitness and Survivor Collections of the Early Cold War Period (1947–55)/ Olga ANDRIEWSKY 147
• The Holodomor and Canada’s Response: Archival Findings / Serge CIPKO 167
• ‘A Trial of Strength against the Restive Peasantry’: What the Germans Knew about the Great Famine in the USSR and How They Perceived It / Paolo FONZI 187 vi
• International Reception
• The Voyage Enchanté of Édouard Herriot in Ukraine / Iryna DMYTRYCHYN 209
• The American Yiddish Daily Forverts on Privation in Soviet Ukraine: Experiences and Reflections / Gennady ESTRAIKH 226
• The Holodomor and the Informational Work of the Ukrainian Bureau in London during 1932–34/ Roman WYSOCKI 245
• The Ukrainian Famine of 1932–33 in the Russian Émigré Discourse of the Interwar Period / Mykola I. SOROKA 269
• New research perspectives
• The Meaning of the Holodomor of 1932–33: From Collective Reproduction to Individual Reconstruction of Mental Trauma / Larysa ZASIEKINA 298
• Reactions to the 1932–33 Holodomor by Ukrainians in Interwar Europe: New Discoveries and Sources / Mirosław CZECH, Ola HNATIUK 320
• Our Authors 339