Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust

by Adam Bruno Ulam, Miron Dolot

Release Date: June, 1987

Edition: Paperback

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I recommend this book, brief but well written:

Upon first reading the diary of Anne Frank, I have become interested in other "similar" types of narratives. Miron Dolot certainly gives us a captivating and sometimes heartwrenching account of when Stalin and his henchmen in Moscow carried out this policy against the poor Ukrainians during the early 1930s. This famine did not only effect Ukraine but Kazakhstan and possibly other areas as well. The story of the famine told by a young teenage boy is very insightful. Such a sorrowful chapter of history.

"Harvest of Sorrow" by Robert Conquest is another good book on the same subject. This one, however, is briefer compared to Conquest's book and can be read in the course of a weekend.

Dolot's book should be read by all interested in European history. I also agree, that it should be used in schools.

Gripping, absorbing, gut-wrenching biography.

The author leads the reader slowly into the horrors of life in the Ukraine during the early 1930s, when Joseph Stalin (and Nikita Krushchev) engineered the mass starvation of about seven million Kulaks and Ukranians in about two years. Rich narration makes it easy to follow the events, as conditions deteriorate into unspeakable horror.

In some ways, "Execution by Hunger" is better than Solzhenitsyn's books, and better than "Coming Out of the Ice." Dolot, I think, reaches every reader's heart. Read this book and you'll look at Russia, and its governments, with a much clearer eye and mind.