Harvest and Hunger: The Holodomor, 1932-1933

This course examines the 1932**1933 famine in Soviet Ukraine within the broader context of Joseph Stalin**s Five-Year Plan and Soviet agricultural collectivization policies. Students will explore how grain requisition quotas, restrictions on peasant movement, economic policy decisions, and state enforcement measures contributed to widespread food shortages and mass mortality. Through analysis of primary source documents and historical scholarship, the course investigates the causes, consequences, and historical interpretations of the famine, including debates surrounding the term Holodomor.