The Man-made Famine in Ukraine

Between August 1933 and spring 1934, more than seven million peasants were starved to death in Ukraine by deliberate Soviet national policy. This immense man-made famine was the final effort of Stalin to gain political control over the peasantry. On the 50th anniversary of this horrible event, details of the famine were discussed at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, by:

• Robert Conquest, of the Hoover Institution and the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown
• Dana Dalrymple, of the US Department of Agriculture James Mace, of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Michael Novak, who holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair for Public Policy Research at AEI, moderated the discussion.

About the Authors

Robert Conquest, a senior research fellow and curator of the Russian and East European collection at the Hoover Institution, is an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University.

Dana Dalrymple, a specialist in international agricultural research with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has written on Soviet agricultural technology for Agricultural History, Technology and Culture, and Soviet Studies.

James Mace, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, is the author of “Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: National Communism in Soviet Ukraine, 1918-1933.”

Michael Novak, who holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair for Public Policy Research at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of “The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism” and “Confession of a Catholic.”