INVESTIGATION OF THE UI(RAINIAN FAMINE 1932-1933

1988 ..................................5 07 Commission Efforts and Accomplishments Tbe purpose of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine, as defined by its enabling legislation, is "to conduct a study of the 1932-1933 Ukrainian Famine in order to expand the world's howledge of the famine and provide the American public with a better understanding of the Soviet system by revealing the Soviet role" in. [...] Instead, the AdddstraEion extended diplomatic recognition to the Soviet government in November 1933, immediately after the Famine 18) During the Famine certain members d the American press corpa cooperated with the Soviet government to deny the existence d the U1PPlnian Famine 19) Recently, scholarship in both the West and, to a lesser extent, the Soviet Union has made substantin1 prolp#s In deali. [...] Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Central Committee journal published a lead editorid, which called the breakdown of the grain procurements "shamefh.l," blamed it on the failure to Yorce" the peasants from the first days of the harvest to fulfill "the very first of their obligations-the obligation to the state in the matter of grain deliveries." Tbe editorial also specifically denouncedp practice of leaviu. [...] As a result of the various repressive measures taken in late 1932, the revised procurements qu for the North Caucasus was actually fulfilled, albeit at tremendous human cost' On January 23, 1933, the day before Stnlin appointed Postyshev to take the reins in the Uhainian capital of Kharkiv, a special Committee on the Conduct of the Sowing in the North Caucasus was appointed, and territorial party. [...] The latter work is a translation of a book published at the turn of the w,wr itten by an aparian socialist who served as President of the Ukrainian Central Rada in 1917-1918, a member of both the AU-Ukrainian and Soviet academics of science and died under mysterious cirarmstanccs in the Soviet Union in 1934.