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How people live in Soviet Russia : impressions from a journey

Title
How people live in Soviet Russia : impressions from a journey / Mendel Osherowitch ; edited by Lubomyr Y Luciuk ; translated from the original Yiddish edition by Sharon Power.
Author
Osherowitch, Mendl, 1889-1965
Publication
  • [Kingston, Ontario] : The Kashtan Press, [2020]
  • ©2020

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  • Power, Sharon, 1980-
  • Luciuk, Lubomyr Y.
Description
xx, 314 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 23 cm
Summary
"Originally published in Yiddish, in New York, in 1933 this is an account by Mendel Osherowitch, a social-democrat who was born in Trostyanyets, Ukraine (then part of the Tsarist Russian empire--he spoke fluent Ukrainian, Russian, Yiddish and English) about a visit he made to his hometown and other parts of Soviet Ukraine in February/March 1932. He provides first-hand descriptions about the beginning of what has come to be known as the genocidal Great Famine of 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine (the Holodomor), widespread discontent and despair, death by starvation, extensive poverty, peasant insurrections and their repression by the regime, the silence of Western journalists in Moscow about the true conditions in the USSR, repeatedly recounting how he was told the food situation was going to get even worse. While sympathetic to the alleged ideals of the Soviet Union, Osherowitch returned disenchanted by what he had witnessed, having understood the human costs of the Soviet experiment."--
Series Statement
Holodomor : occasional papers series ; 3
Uniform Title
Vi mentch(e)n leben in Sovet-Rusland. English
Alternative Title
Vi mentch(e)n leben in Sovet-Rusland.
Subject
  • Osherowitch, Mendl, 1889-1965 > Travel > Ukraine
  • 1932-1933
  • Travel
  • Ukraine > History > Famine, 1932-1933
  • Ukraine > Description and travel
  • Soviet Union > Description and travel
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued By (note)
  • Co-published by Chair of Ukrainian Studies, The University of Toronto.
ISBN
  • 9781896354439
  • 1896354432
LCCN
2020413021
OCLC
  • 1126790272
  • on1126790272
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library