famines

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.

Traces the causes of the Great Famine that afflicted Northern Europe in the early fourteenth century, offering a perspective of what daily life was like for people living in the countries affected by the crisis.