23 Octo­ber — the talk ‘Death by Star­va­tion: Geog­ra­phy and Lega­cy of Stalin’s Ter­ror-Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine’ by Dr. Nadia Kravets (Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty) at the Cape Town Holo­caust and Geno­cides Cen­tre. Talk attend­ed by 62 peo­ple.

In Com­mem­o­ra­tion of the 85th Anniver­sary of Ukraine’s Great Famine of 1932–1933 that took lives of 3–7 mil­lions of Ukraini­ans,
Pubic Lec­ture, Com­mu­ni­ty Prayer, and a Can­dle Light­ing Cer­e­mo­ny
‘Death by Star­va­tion: Geog­ra­phy and Lega­cy of Stalin’s Ter­ror-Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine’ by Dr. Nadiya Kravets (Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty)

Free Entrance

Between 1932 and 1934 close to four mil­lion inhab­i­tants of Sovi­et Ukraine, or every eight had died in the Holodomor or the Great Ukrain­ian Famine of 1932–1933. Defined as geno­cide by the orig­i­nal author of the term, Raphael Lemkin, who served as an advis­er to the chief coun­sel at Nurem­berg tri­als, the Holodomor remains a stark reminder to human­i­ty of polit­i­cal attempts to sub­ju­gate groups of peo­ple that are viewed as “unde­sir­able” by the rul­ing regime.

This lec­ture will present newest find­ings from the research team at the Har­vard Ukrain­ian Research Insti­tute, who use cut­ting-edge geo­graph­ic dig­i­tal tools to explore demo­graph­ic, envi­ron­men­tal, polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic fac­tors, includ­ing col­lec­tiviza­tion, a form of the land reform, that con­tributed to this man-made famine.

Dr. Nadiya Kravets is an Asso­ciate and a for­mer Post­doc­tor­al Research Fel­low at the Ukrain­ian Research Insti­tute at Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty. She received her Ph.D. at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oxford in Pol­i­tics and Inter­na­tion­al Rela­tions, focus­ing on Ukraine-Rus­sia rela­tions.