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Introduction to the Special Issue on the Soviet Famines of 1930–1933

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2020

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Andrea Graziosi*
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The 20th century has been a century of political famines, that is, famines directly—and at times willfully—caused by human policies, in war1 and in peacetime. Scores of millions starved to death in times during which there was enough food to feed everyone and the means to transport it where needed.

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Soviet UnionUkrainefaminesgenocide
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 48 , Special Issue 3: Special Issue on the Soviet Famines of 1930–1933 , May 2020 , pp. 435 - 443
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