Mapping and evaluating the major famines of modern times

Abstract

This abstract reports on an international project being carried out at Nazarbayev University that provides a more detailed picture of the geography and chronology of the largest famines of the twentieth century. Our preliminary results on the Soviet famine of 1932-33 challenge many of the conventional views. Because of international interest in this work, preliminary results concerning mapping the Soviet famine have been published in Russia and Ukraine, and are available on the website of the Russian State Archive Administration.