Conquest, Robert

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.

Provides a portrait of Stalin, based on material that became available in the aftermath of glasnost along with earlier official and unofficial sources.