Hungry And Starving - Gibson - Livros - McGill-Queen's University Press - 9780228019992 - 13 de fevereiro de 2024
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Hungry And Starving

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In the wake of Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924, various protagonists grappled to become his successor, but it was not until 1928 that Joseph Stalin emerged as leader of the Russian Marxists' Bolshevik wing. Surrounded by an increasingly hostile capitalist world, Stalin reasoned that Soviet Russia had to industrialize in order to survive and prosper. But domestic capital was scarce, so the country's minerals, timber, and grain were sold abroad for hard currency for funding the development of heavy industry.

Claiming total control of agricultural management and production, Stalin implemented the collectivization of farming, consolidating the small peasant holdings into large collective farms and controlling their output. The program was economically successful, but it came at a high social cost as the state encountered intense resistance, and between 1928 and 1934 collectivization led to the deaths of at least ten million people from starvation and associated diseases. Hungry and Starving elicits the voices of both the culprits and the victims at the centre of this horrific process. Through primary accounts of collectivization as well as the eyewitness observations of outside observers - including ambassadors, reporters, tourists, fellow travellers, Russian emigres, tsarist officials, aristocrats, scientists, and technical specialists - James Gibson engages the crucial notions and actors in the academic discourse of the period. He finds that the famine lasted longer than is commonly supposed, that it took place on a national rather than a regional scale, and that while the famine was entirely man-made - the result of the ruthless manner in which collectivization was executed and enforced - it was neither deliberate nor ethnically motivated, given that it was not in the Soviet state's economic or political interest to engage in genocide.

Highlighting the experiences of life and death under Stalin's ruthless regime, Hungry and Starving offers a broader understanding of the Great Soviet Famine.
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Mídia Livros     Book
Lançado 13 de fevereiro de 2024
ISBN13 9780228019992
Editoras McGill-Queen's University Press
Páginas 512
Dimensões 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   839 g

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