Public Talk - The Last Soviet Famine, 1946/47: Mass Death across Ukraine, Moldova and Russia

12 April 2024

CIUS's Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) is currently hosting scholars working on a research project that focuses on the 1946-47 Soviet Famine.

On 17 April 2024 these scholars will present on their findings (in-person, with a Zoom option) at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto.

The Last Soviet Famine, 1946/47: Mass Death across Ukraine, Moldova and Russia

Online & in-person
April 17, 2024 | 3:00PM - 5:00 P.M. EDT
Room 108N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto

 

Filip Slaveski and Hiroaki Kuromiya will discuss the most recent yet little-known famine in Soviet and European history, which killed at least one million people in 1946-47, mostly in Ukraine and Moldova. At the time the Soviet state repressed news of the famine, and it remains largely absent in English-language scholarship and relatively neglected in Russian and Ukrainian scholarship. The research project operates from archival sources across the former Soviet space to explore the interaction of numerous factors in understanding famine causation, duration, mortality, and its broader consequences, which endured for decades afterwards. Discussion will be moderated by CIUS's Bohdan Klid.