Harvest of Sorrow

Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written.

More deaths resulted from the actions described in this book than from the whole of the First World War.

Epic in scope and rich in detail, The Harvest of Sorrow describes how millions of peasants in the USSR were dispossessed and deported as a result of the abolition of private property, and how millions in the newly established ‘collective’ farms of the Ukraine and other regions were then deliberately starved to death through impossibly high quotas, the removal of all other sources of food and their isolation from outside help.

With the publication of this and his earlier book, The Great Terror, which revealed the truth about Stalin’s political purges, Robert Conquest revealed to the West the staggering human cost of the Soviet regime.

The Harvest of Sorrow, de Robert Conquest, a contribuit la dezvaluirea catre Occident a costurilor umane adevarate si uimitoare ale regimului sovietic in foamea sa deliberata de milioane de tarani si ramane una dintre cele mai importante opere ale istoriei sovietice scrise vreodata. descris in aceasta carte decat din intregul Primul Razboi Mondial. De amploare vasta si bogata in detalii, The Harvest of Sorrow descrie modul in care milioane de tarani din URSS au fost deposedati si deportati ca urmare a abolirii proprietatii private si cum milioane in fermele „colective” recent infiintate din Ucraina si din alte regiuni au fost apoi in mod deliberat infometate pana la moarte prin cote imposibil de mari, eliminarea tuturor celorlalte surse de hrana si izolarea lor din ajutoare externe. Cu publicarea acestei carti si a cartii sale anterioare , Marea teroare, care a dezvaluit adevarul despre epurarile politice ale lui Stalin, Robert Conquest a dezvaluit Occidentului costul uman uluitor al regimului sovietic.