Knyzhka Corner Audio Bookshelf: Communism and Hunger

In this edition of Knyzhka Corner on Nash Holos: a review of Communism and Hunger – The Ukrainian, Chinese, Kazakh, and Soviet Famines in Comparative Perspective edited by Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn.Communism and Hunger is a collection of scholarly articles examining the similarities and differences of the 1931-1933 Ukrainian Holodomor, the Kazakh great hunger, and the famine in China in 1958-1962.The articles were written by scholars who presented their papers at a 2014 conference organized by the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium.“Whatever the economic motivations, the famines were also political events requiring political analysis of their causes and courses.” (p. vii)Full transcript here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.