Stalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932 – 33: A reply to Ellman |
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| Authors: | R. W. Davies Stephen G. Wheatcroft |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Centre for Russian and East European Studies , University of Birmingham;2. History Department , University of Melbourne |
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| Abstract: | This Reply, while confirming that Stalin's policies were ruthless and brutal, shows that there are no serious grounds for Ellman's view that Stalin pursued a conscious policy of starvation of the peasants during the famine. It also rejects Ellman's claim that in their recent book [Davies and Wheatcroft (the authors neglect Soviet policy and leadership perceptions in their account of the famine. |
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