Background Materials
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Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin
Call Number: DJK49.S69 2010This book anchors the history of Hitler's Holocaust and Stalin's Terror in their time and place and provides a fresh account of the relationship between the two regimes. -
Crimes of the Stalin era; special report to the 20th congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Call Number: DK268.S8K453 1962 -
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Harvest of sorrow : Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine
Call Number: HD1492.S65C66 1986Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants. -
Life and terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1934-1941
Call Number: DK267.T52 1996Examining Stalin's reign of terror, this text argues that the Soviet people were not simply victims but also actors in the violence, criticisms and local decisions of the 1930s.
Online Sources
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Mapa: Digital Atlas of UkraineThe project’s current focus is on the history of the Holodomor ("death-by-starvation") – the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33.
Media
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Stalin: Inside the TerrorA 50-minute movie on Stalin
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The Great Hunger, Part 1 & 2Philip Coulter visits Ireland and Ukraine to tell the story of two "famines" that continue to shape these nations today.
(2010)