Between 1929 & 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the peasantry of the USSR: dekulakisation, the dispossession & deportation of millions of peasant families; & collectivisation, the effective abolition of private property in land & the concentration of the remaining peasantry in 'collective' farms under Party control. There followed a 'terror-famine', inflicted on the collectivised peasants of the Ukraine & certain other regions by the state, which set impossibly high"as, removed every other source of food, & prevented outside help
- even from other areas of the USSR
- from reaching the starving millions. Epic in scope & rich in detail, The Harvest of Sorrow tells the moving story of a disaster that was, in human terms, one of the worst in living memory.