famines

Presents an account of the potato famine which struck Ireland in the late 1840s, resulting in the deaths of nearly one million people, and spurring the mass exodus of Irish people to North America.

During the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, three children are left alone and in danger of being sent to the workhouse, so they set out to find the great-aunts they remember from their mother's stories.

Discusses the issue of world hunger--its causes, effects, and what can be done to stop it.

Studies the political, social, and scientific-technical reasons for world food shortages, and focuses on possible approaches to increasing food production.

Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants; abolished privately held land and forced the remaining peasantry into "collective" farms; and inflicted impossible grain quotas on the peasants that resulted in mass starvation.

Draws from interviews with hundreds of survivors to provide information about how the Communist reforms instituted in China in the years between 1958 and 1962, and the reluctance of officials to oppose Mao Zedong, led to massive crop failures and famine that claimed millions of lives.

Discusses the causes of hunger and famine in both developed and developing countries and some of the ways of dealing with these problems.

Fiona's family flees the Irish Potato Famine in the mid-1800s for the promise of Boston.

Explores the reasons behind the Ukrainian famine of the early 1930s, looking at the impact of Stalin's forced collectivization and seizure of food, which resulted in the starvation of nearly seven million people.