Mapping the Great Famine

One of the most insightful and moving eyewitness accounts of the Holodomor, or the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33, was written by Oleksandra Radchenko, a teacher in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. In her diary, which was confiscated by Stalin's secret police and landed the author in the Gulag...

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Published in:Harvard Ukrainian studies 2015-01, Vol.34 (1-4), p.385-9
Main Author: Plokhy, Serhii
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Demography
Diaries
Famine
Famines
Geographic information systems
History
Police
Portrayals
Radchenko, Oleksandra
Social aspects
Starvation
Teachers
Ukraine
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Summary:One of the most insightful and moving eyewitness accounts of the Holodomor, or the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33, was written by Oleksandra Radchenko, a teacher in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. In her diary, which was confiscated by Stalin's secret police and landed the author in the Gulag for ten long years, the 36-year-old teacher recorded not only what she saw around her but also what she thought about the tragedy unfolding before her eyes. Was Radchenko's story unique? Did people all over Ukraine indeed suffer from starvation in 1932 and then start dying en masse in 1933? Which areas of Ukraine were most affected? Was there a north-south divide, as the diary suggests, and, if so, did people suffer (and die) more in the south than in the north? These are the core questions that the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute's Digital Map of Ukraine Project attempts to answer by developing the Geographic Information System (GIS)-based Digital Atlas of the Holodomor.
ISSN:0363-5570
2328-5400