14. THE COVER-UP

  1. Petro Drobylko, ‘The Cursed Thirties’, in Pidhainy, ed., The Black Deeds of the Kremlin, vol. 1, 278.

  2. PA IIP pri TsK Kompartii Ukrainy 1/101/1243 (1933), 159–63, 172, in R. Ia. Pyrih, ed., Holod 1932–1933 rokiv na Ukraïni: ochyma istorykiv, movoiu dokumentiv (Kyiv: Politvydav Ukraïny, 1990), 441–4; not to be confused with Holodomor 1932–1933 by the same author.

  3. APRF 3/40/87/52–64, cited in Kondrashin et al., eds., Golod v SSSR, vol. 2, 695–701.

  4. Testimony of Mariia Bondarenko, in Kovalenko and Maniak, eds., 33-i Holod, 90.

  5. Testimony of Serhii Fedotovych Kucheriavyi, in Veselova and Nikiliev, Pam’iat’ narodu, vol. 1, 720.

  6. Testimony of Vasyl’ Patsiuk Babanka, in Kovalenko and Maniak, eds., 33-i Holod, 104.

  7. Testimony of Iryna Pavlivna N., in Mytsyk et al., eds., Ukraïns’kyi holokost, vol. 1, 98.

  8. Testimony of A. Butkovska, in U.S. Congress and Commission on the Ukraine Famine, Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine, 1932–1933: Second Interim Report, 25.

  9. Testimony of Oleksa Voropai, in Veselova and Nikiliev, Pam’iat’ narodu, vol. 1, 266.

10. TsDAHOU 1/20/6277 (1933), 105–11, in Pyrih, ed., Holodomor, 724–5.

11. Derzhavnyi Arkhiv Odes’koï Oblasti P-2009/1/4 (1933), 91–2, with thanks to Hennadii Boriak.

12. DAKhO, 3683/2/2 (1933), 52, online at Holodomor 1932–1933 rr. Kharkivs’ka oblast’, accessed 2017, http://www.golodomor.kharkov.ua/docsmod.php?docpage=1&doc=772.

13. Anne Applebaum, ‘Interview with Professor Hennadii Boriak, Deputy Director, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine’, 25 February 2017.

14. Testimony of Dmytro Koval’chuk, in Veselova and Nikiliev, Pam’iat’ narodu, vol. 1, 590; testimony of Volodymyr Tkachenko, in Kovalenko and Maniak, 33-i Holod, 532.

15. Testimony of Stepan Podolian, in Kovalenko and Maniak, eds., 33-i Holod, 110–11.

16. U.S. Congress and Commission on the Ukraine Famine, Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine, 1932–1933: Report to Congress, 46.

17. Applebaum, ‘Interview with Andrea Graziosi’, February 2014.

18. HDA SBU, Odessa --/66/5 (1932), 2,579–2,579v, in Bojko and Bednarek, Holodomor, 227.

19. Catherine Merridale, ‘The 1937 Census and the Limits of Stalinist Rule’, The Historical Journal 39, no. 1 (1 March 1996), 226.

20. Ibid., 230.

21. Ibid., 235–40.

22. A. G. Volkov, ‘Perepis’ naseleniia SSSR 1937 goda: Istoriia i materialy/Ekspress-informatsiia’, Istoriia Statistiki 3–5, no. chast’ II (1990), 16–18.

23. I. Sautin, ‘The National Census – a Duty of the Whole People’, trans. ‘Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, an Online Archive of Primary Sources’, Bol’shevik 23–24 (23 December 1938), http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1939-2/the-lost-census/the-lost-census-texts/duty-of-the-whole-people.

24. Interview with Oleh Wolowyna, April 2016.

25. Volkov, ‘Perepis’ naseleniia SSSR 1937 goda’, 16–18.

26. ‘Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, an Online Archive of Primary Sources’, trans., ‘The All-Union Census – a Most Important Government Task’, Pravda (lead article), 29 November 1938, http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1939-2/the-lost-census/the-lost-census-texts/duty-of-the-whole-people.

27. Mark Tolts, ‘The Soviet Censuses of 1937 and 1939: Some Problems of Data Evaluation’, presented at the International Conference on Soviet Population in the 1920s and 1930s, Toronto, 1995, 4.

28. Ibid., 9–10.

29. Stepan Baran, ‘Z nashoï trahediï za Zbruchem’, Dilo (Lviv) 21, May 1933.

30. Leonard Leshuk, Days of Famine, Nights of Terror: First-Hand Accounts of Soviet Collectivization 1928–1934 (Washington, D.C.: Europa University Press, 2000), 121.

31. Robert Kuśnierz, Ukraina w Latach Kolektywizacji i Wielkiego Głodu (1929–1933) (Torún: Grado, 2006), 214–17.

32. Testimony of Myroslav Prokop, in Mytsyk et al., eds., Ukraïns’kyi holokost, vol. 5, 107–10; Kuśnierz, Ukraina w Latach Kolektywizacji, 215.

33. Kuśnierz, Ukraina w Latach Kolektywizacji, 220.

34. S. Sipko, ‘The Winnipeg Free Press and the Winnipeg Tribune: A Report for the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium’, December 2013, excerpted from the archives of the copyright holder, the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre, 5.

35. ‘Policy of Soviet Regime Scored by Ukrainians Here – Responsible for Millions of Deaths from Starvation, It Is Claimed’, Winnipeg Free Press (8 September 1933), 5.

36. Kuśnierz, Ukraina w Latach Kolektywizacji, 221–7.

37. DATO 231/1/2067 (1933), 38-41, in Bojko and Bednarek, Holodomor, 504–5.

38. McVay and Luciuk, The Holy See and the Holodomor, ix, 5.

39. ‘Cardinal Asks Aid in Russian Famine’, The New York Times (20 August 1933).

40. ‘Ukrains’kyi Holodomor ochyma avstriitsia’, Radio Svoboda. Last modified 28 April 2017, accessed 2017. http://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/holodomor-ukraine-1933/25177046.html. Some of the photographs were published in Dr Ewald Ammende, Muss Russland hungern? Menschen- und Völkerschicksale in der Sowjetunion (Vienna: Braumüller, 1935). Wienerberger himself published a memoir: Hart auf Hart [Hard Times] 15 Jahre Ingenieur in Sowjetrußland. Ein Tatsachenbericht (Salzburg: Pustet, 1939).

41. McVay and Luciuk, The Holy See and the Holodomor, viii–xiv.

42. Graziosi, ‘ “Lettres de Kharkov” ’, 57–61.

43. HDA SBU 13/1611 (1933), 41–4, in Bojko and Bednarek, Holodomor, 507.

44. Gustav Hilger and Alfred G. Meyer, The Incompatible Allies: A Memoir-History of German-Soviet Relations, 1918–1941 (New York: Macmillan, 1953), 256.

45. Graziosi, ‘ “Lettres de Kharkov” ’, 7.

46. Bruski, ‘In Search of New Sources’, 222–4.

47. Carynnyk et al., eds., The Foreign Office and the Famine, 105.

48. Ibid., 135.

49. Ibid., 329, 397.

50. Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb, Is Soviet Communism a New Civilisation? (London: The Left Review, 1936), 29.

51. Stanley Weintraub, ‘GBS and the Despots’, The Times Literary Supplement Online (22 August 2011). http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/gbs-and-the-despots.

52. Lyons, Assignment in Utopia, 430.

53. Andrei Platonovich Platonov, Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays, trans. Robert Chandler, Jesse Irwin and Susan Larsen (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), 92.

54. Etienne Thevenin, ‘France, Germany and Austria Facing the Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine’, presented at the James Mace Memorial Panel, IAUS Congress, Donetsk, Ukraine (6 June 2005). http://www.colley.co.uk/garethjones/ukraine2005/Etienne%20Thevein%20%20English%20translation.pdf.

55. TsDAHOU 1/20/6204 (1933), in Marochko and Movchan, Holodomor 1932–1933 rokiv v Ukraïni, 257.

56. Quoted in Thevenin, ‘France, Germany and Austria’, 8.

57. Alva Christiansen, ‘American Girls Seized, Expelled from Turkestan’, Chicago Daily Tribune (23 January 1933).

58. Rhea Clyman, ‘Writer Driven From Russia’, Toronto Evening Telegram (20 September 1932).

59. Rhea Clyman, ‘Children Lived on Grass’, Toronto Evening Telegram (16 May 1933).

60. Lyons, Asignment in Utopia, 573–5.

61. William Henry Chamberlin, ‘Soviet Taboos’, Foreign Affairs 13, no. 3 (1935), 431.

62. Walter Duranty, I Write as I Please (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935), 304.

63. Amity Shlaes, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (London: Pimlico, 2009), 47–84, 133.

64. Chamberlin, ‘Soviet Taboos’, 433.

65. Carynnyk et al., eds., The Foreign Office and the Famine, 209.

66. Chamberlin, ‘Soviet Taboos’, 432–3.

67. Carynnyk et al., eds., The Foreign Office and the Famine, 202–9.

68. Lyons, Assignment in Utopia, 574.

69. Biographical details from Ray Gamache, Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to History (Cardiff: Welsh Academic Press, 2013).

70. Lyons, Assignment in Utopia, 575.

71. Jones’s diary was preserved by his sister at her home in Wales, rediscovered by his grand-nephew, Nigel Colley, and published as Gareth Jones, Tell Them We Are Starving: The 1933 Diaries of Gareth Jones, ed. Lubomyr Y. Luciuk (Kingston, Ontario: Kashtan Press, 2015).

72. Gareth Jones, ‘Soviet Confiscate Part of Workers’ Wages’, Daily Express (5 April 1933), 8.

73. Luciuk, Tell Them We Are Starving, 131.

74. Ibid., 184–6.

75. Gareth Jones, ‘Fate of Thrifty in USSR: Gareth Jones Tells How Communists Seized All Land and Let Peasants Starve’, Los Angeles Examiner (14 January 1935).

76. Luciuk, ed., Tell Them We Are Starving, 190.

77. Ibid., 204.

78. Gareth Jones, ‘Famine Grips Russia, Millions Dying. Idle on Rise, Says Briton’, Chicago Daily News and Evening Post Foreign Service (29 March 1933), 1; Edgar Ansel Mowrer, ‘Russian Famine Now as Great as Starvation of 1921, Says Secretary of Lloyd George’, Chicago Daily News Foreign Service (29 March 1933), 2; Gamache, Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to History, 183.

79. Gareth Jones, ‘Press Release quoted in “Famine Grips Russia Millions Dying. Idle on Rise, Says Briton” ’, Evening Post Foreign Service (29 March 1933).

80. Nigel Linsan Colley, ‘ “1933 Newspaper Articles”. Gareth Jones – Hero of Ukraine’, accessed 2017, http://www.garethjones.org/overview/articles1933.htm.

81. Teresa Cherfas, ‘Reporting Stalin’s Famine: Jones and Muggeridge: A Case Study in Forgetting and Rediscovery’, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 14, no. 4 (August 2013), 775–804.

82. Lyons, Assignment in Utopia, 572, 575–6.

83. Walter Duranty, ‘Russians Hungry But Not Starving’, The New York Times (31 March 1933).

84. Margaret Siriol Colley, Gareth Jones: A Manchukuo Incident (Newark, NJ: N. L. Colley, 2001).

85. Thevenin, ‘France, Germany and Austria’, 9.

86. Carynnyk et al., eds., The Foreign Office and the Famine, 329, 397.

87. Snyder, Bloodlands, 50.

88. Sally J. Taylor, Stalin’s Apologist: Walter Duranty, the New York Times’s Man in Moscow (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), xx.

89. Aleck Woollcott quoted in Taylor, Stalin’s Apologist, 191.