Documenting the famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine: archival collections on the Holodomor outside the former Soviet Union

ABSTRACT

A conference held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton on 1–2 November 2019 brought together Holodomor researchers from around the world who shared their knowledge of little-examined themes and unexplored archives. Speakers reported on government and community archives and the light these cast on foreign policy decisions, the course of the famine, and the famine’s long-term consequences.

RÉSUMÉ

Une conférence organisée à l’Université de l’Alberta à Edmonton du 1 au 2 novembre 2019 a rassemblé les chercheurs du monde entier travaillant sur l’Holodomor. Ils ont partagé leurs savoirs sur des thèmes peu abordés et sur des archives inexplorées. Les conférenciers ont produit un rapport sur les archives gouvernementales et communautaires et sur la façon dont elles éclairent les décisions relatives à la politique étrangère ainsi que le cours de la famine et ses conséquences sur le long terme.

KEYWORDS:

• Holodomor
• archives

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Myroslav Shkandrij

Myroslav Shkandrij is an emeritus professor at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of Modernists, Marxists and the Nation: The Ukrainian Literary Discussion of the 1920s (1992), Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire (2001), Jews in Ukrainian Literature: Representation and Identity (2009), Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929–1956 (2015), Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910–1930: Contested Memory (2019), and Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917–2017: History’s Flashpoints and Today’s Memory Wars (2019). He is also the curator of several art exhibitions and has translated a number of Ukrainian authors into English.