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Exploring the tensions between the rigid legal definition of genocide and the manifold realities researchers have discovered, this comprehensive text offers innovative solutions to address the limitations of the genocide concept, while preserving its usefulness as an analytical framework.

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Communism and Hunger: the Ukrainian, Chinese, Kazakh, and Soviet famines in comparative perspective

Graziosi, Andrea; Sysyn, Frank E.

"This is a collection of conference papers that discuss the causes, dynamics, demographic impact, and consequences of the pan-Soviet famines of 1931-33, the Ukrainian Holodomor, the Kazakh great hunger, and the terrible famine of 1959-61 in China produced by the Great Leap Forward."--

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Article(electronic)#14September 10, 2016

Communism and Hunger: Introduction

In: East/West: journal of Ukrainian Studies, Volume 3, Issue 2, p. 5

Graziosi, Andrea; Sysyn, Frank E.

ISSN: 2292-7956

<p>Over the past two decades, important studies of the famines in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China have transformed our understanding of these events and laid the groundwork for the first attempts at comparative analysis. Nevertheless, the great twentieth-century famines caused by state policies remain relatively little studied. We still lack a systematic comparison of their features, at least in part because of the difficulty in conceptualizing the possibility of man-made famine in modern times and because a topic like "Communism and Hunger" may seem to be a contradiction in terms. Yet even a simple list of the past century's major famines suggests that the topic is badly in need of attention...</p>

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Editors' Introduction: Starvation and Genocide

In: Genocide studies international: official publication of the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 1-7

Sysyn, Frank E.; Theriault, Henry C.

ISSN: 2291-1855

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