![]() This was followed in 1932-33 by a "terror-famine," inflicted by the State on the collectivized peasants of the Ukraine and certain other areas by setting impossibly high grain quotas, removing every other source of food, and preventing help from outside-even from other areas of the Soviet Union-from reaching the starving populace. Between 19 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining peasants in party-controlled "collective" farms. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. ![]()
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