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Famine

 

Famine documents:

1918-22

 

1930-34

 

 

Selected papers and chapters available:

 

• Wheatcroft, S.G., Garnaut, A., & Leikin, I, 'Mapping crude death rates in Ukraine in 1933 and explaining the raion patterns', in Golod v Ukraini y pershii polovini XX stolittya: prichini ta naslidki (1921-1923, 1932-1933, 1946-1947): Materiali Mizhnarodhoi naukovoi konferentsii, Institut demogafii ta sotsial'nikh doslidzhen' imeni M.V.Ptukhi NAN Ukraini. Institut istorii Ukraini NAN Ukrain, Kiivskii natsional'nii universitet imeni Tarasa Shevchenka, Natsional'nii universitet "Kievo-Mogilyanska Akademiya", Kiiv 2013
  
  
• Wheatcroft, S. Garnaut A, 'Losses of population in separate regions of USSR (1929-1934): Statistics, Maps and Comparative Analysis (with special reference to Ukraine) pp. 376-391, in Famine 1933 Ukraine: Collection of scientific papers. Kiev-DP- NVTs "Priority" 2013
  
  
• Wheatcroft, S.G., 'Indicators of demographic crisis in the Soviet Famine', in Golod v SSSR, 1929-33, vol. 3, book 2, Moscow, 2013 [Famine in USSR, 1929-33]

 

from The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-33, (The Industrialisation of Russia Vol.5) R.W. Davies and Stephen G. Wheatcroft (Palgrave 2004)

• Ch.13 The Famine in Perspective

 

from Economy and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1860-1930: Essays for Olga Crisp, edited by Linda Edmondson and Peter Waldron (St Martin's Press 1992)

 

• S. G. Wheatcroft: The 1891-92 Famine: towards a more detailed analysis of its scale and significance

 

from S.G.Wheatcroft, ed., Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History, Palgrave: Macmillan, 2002 pp. 69-91

• Ch.4 R.W.Davies & S.G.Wheatcroft, ‘The Soviet Famine of 1932-33 and the crisis in Agriculture’

Discussion papers from Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), University of Birmingham, the Soviet Industrialisation Project.

 

• S.G.Wheatcroft, ‘Famine and factors affecting mortality in the USSR: The Demographic Crises of 1914-1922 and 1930-1933, SIPS, No. 20 1981
  
  
• S.G.Wheatcroft, ‘Famine and factors affecting mortality in the USSR: The Demographic Crises of 1914-1922 and 1930-1933, SIPS, No 21 1981
  
  
• S. G. Wheatcroft, The Significance of Climatic and Weather Change on Soviet Agriculture (with particular reference to the 1920s and 1930s) SIPs No.11 1977

Also

• S.G. Wheatcroft, ‘Current knowledge of the level and nature of mortality in the Ukrainian famine of 1931-3’ in V.Vasil’ev & Yu. Shapovala, Commanders of the Great Famine: The Trips of V.Molotov and L. Kaganovich to Ukraine and North Caucasus, 1932-1933., Kiev, Geneza, 2001, pp. 179-194 [Russian version] [Ukrainian version]
  
  
• S.G.Wheatcroft, ‘Soviet Statistics of nutrition and mortality during times of famine’, Cahiers du Monde Russe, vol. 38, no. 4, Oct-Dec, 1997, pp. 1-34
  
  
• S.G Wheatcroft ‘Crises And The Condition Of The Peasantry In Late Imperial Russia’ in Esther Kingston-Mann and Timothy Mixter (eds), Peasant Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia, 1800-1921, Princeton University Press 1991