Events
CIUS Lecture on 1932-33 Holodomor
| Date | Friday, 20-Nov-2009 |
| Time | 7:00 p.m. |
| Andrea Graziosi Professor of History at the University of Naples, Italy Lecture: "The Holodomor and the Soviet Famines, 1931-33" Place: Education North Room 2-115, University of Alberta The lecture will discuss the relations between the pan-Soviet 1931-1933 famine, and special phenomena such as the Kazakhstan famine and epidemics of 1931-1933 and the Ukrainian-Kuban Holodomor of late 1932 to early 1933. On the one hand, he will analyze their common causes and their common background; on the other, focus on the specific traits of these major tragedies, addressing their relations with Stalin's decisions and policies in Moscow as well as with local conditions. A discussion of the genocide issue, and of recent controversies, will be followed by some thoughts on the Holodomor's consequences for Ukraine. Andrea Graziosi is Professor of History at the University of Naples "Federico II" and President (2007-2011) of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (www.sissco.it). He is the author, among other things, of "Lettere da Kharkov" (Torino, Einaudi, 1991 and Kharkiv, 2007), "The Great Soviet Peasant War" (Cambridge, MA, 1996 and Moscow, 2001), "Bol eviki i krest iane na Ukraine, 1918-1919" (Moscow, AIRO-XX, 1997), "A New, Peculiar State. Explorations in Soviet History" (Westport, CT, 2000), "Guerra e rivoluzione in Europa 1905-1956" (Bologna, 2002, Kyiv and Moscow, 2005), "L Urss di Lenin e Stalin, 1914-1945" (Bologna, 2007) and "L Urss dal trionfo al degrado, 1945-1991" (Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008). He serves in Editorial Boards of a number of French, English, Italian, Ukrainian and U.S. specialized journals, co-edits in Moscow, since 1992, the series "Dokumenty sovetskoi istorii" (15 volumes in print) and is a member of the editorial board of the series Istoriia Stalinizma (Rosspen, Moscow). Further info: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 430 Pembina Hall University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB tel: (780) 492-2972 e-mail: cius@ualberta.ca | |
| Internet: | http://www.cius.ca |
