Open AccessCommunism and Hunger: Preface
Author(s) -
From The Guest Editors
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
east/west
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2292-7956
DOI - 10.21226/t2qc79
Subject(s) - famine , kazakh , ukrainian , communism , china , politics , political science , history , development economics , political economy , economic history , sociology , law , economics , philosophy , linguistics
Over the past two decades, researchers have made significant progress in studying the great political famines of the twentieth century. As a result of increased access to formerly closed archives and the collective efforts of the international scholarly community, we now have a rather accurate picture of the causes, dynamics, demographic impact, and consequences of the pan-Soviet famines of 1931-33, the Ukrainian Holodomor, the Kazakh great hunger, and the terrible famine of 1959-61 in China produced by the Great Leap Forward...