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Book by Douglas Tottle
Progress Books, 71 Bathurst Street
Toronto, Canada, M5V 2P6, 1987
ISBN 0-919396-51-8
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From the INTRODUCTION to the book:
- "The mass collectivization of agriculture and an ambitious
industrialization program were the central features of the first
five-year plan launched in 1929. Collectivization met with active
opposition from sections of the peasantry, and in many areas the
struggle approached the scale of civil war. Drought (a complicating
factor), widespread sabotage, amateurish Soviet planning, Stalinist
excesses, and mistakes caused the famine of 1932-1933.
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"Throughout the famine-genocide campaign however, the factors
of drought and sabotage have been ignored, denied, downplayed or
distorted. Soviet excesses and mistakes, in contrast, are emphasized,
given an "anti-Ukrainian" motivation, described as consciously planned,
and the results exaggerated in depictions of starvation deaths in the
multi-millions.
"Fraudulent photographs and suspect evidence are extensively
used to embellish charges of 'genocide,' and are in face the dominant
images of the campaign. The sheer volume of non-authentic material
used to support the genocide claim should be itself grounds for outright
rejection of such a dubious thesis.........................
"......By cutting through the tangled web of fraudulent evidence, Nazi
and fascist connections, cover-ups of wartime collaboration, and
questionable scholarly research, it is my hope that this book will
contribute to exposing the political myth of Ukrainian genocide. The
historical study of the famine of 1932-1933 deserves an objective
and non-propagandistic approach" [Pages 2-3]
CONTENTS:
FRAUD
1. Thomas Walker: The Man Who Never Was
2. The Hearst Press: The Campaign Continues
3. Famine Photographs: Which Famine?
4. Cold War I: Black Deeds
5. The Numbers Game
6. Cold War II: The 1980s Campaign
7. Harvest of Deception
FAMINE
8. The Famine
FASCISM
9. Collaboration and Collusion
10. War Criminals, Anti-Semitism and the Famine-Genocide Campaign
APPENDIX
From Third Reich Propagandist to Famine-Genocide Author
Notes
Bibliography
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Quebec, Douglas Tottle has spent
most of his life in Western Canada. Tottle has worked as a photographer
and a photo-lab technician, fine artist, underground miner, and as a
steelworker. An active trade unionist, Tottle edited the United
Steelworkers journal "The Challenger" from 1975 to 1985, during the
time the paper received over 20 international and Canadian journalism
awards. Tottle has also worked as a labor history researcher, and as
an organizer. During the 1970s he assisted the organizing drive of Chicano
farmworkers in California and worked with Native Indian farmworkers in
Manitoba. Tottle has written for various Canadian and U.S. periodicals,
magazines, and labor journals. [from page at the beginning of the book]
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