- 05 Dec 2004 01:00
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The book can be read here.
From the back of the book:
"Douglas Tottle exposes the fraudulent charge of famine-genocide made against the USSR . . . Skillfully Tottle traces the labyrinthine history of the 'evidence' - documentary and photographic - on its convoluted passage from nazi publications to the Hearst press to the misfounded "scholarship" of such present-day Kremlinologists as Robert Conquest. Tottle's sharp and engagingly written investigation is useful and intelligent. The author makes up an important contribution by exposing the ways and wiles of anti-Communist propaganda."
-Clarence J. Munford
Professor of History
University of Guelph
"For almost 70 years the study of the Soviet Union has been trapped in a sea of distortion, lie and propaganda. While this has not always been one-sided, its overall effect has been to stimulate fear, suspicion and danger of war. In the present age of new thinking about the history of socialism in the USSR, it remains necessary to deal with and disperse at least the worst of the lies. Tottle's book demonstrates clearly the viciousness surrounding the theory of the Ukrainian genocide and hopefully will open the way to genuine stufy of the Ukrainian road to socialism."
David Whitefield
Professor of History
University of Calgary
From the INTRODUCTION to the book:
"The mass collectivization of agriculture and an ambitious industrialization program were the central features of the first five-year plan launched in 1929. Collectivization met with active opposition from sections of the peasantry, and in many areas the struggle approached the scale of civil war. Drought (a complicating factor), widespread sabotage, amateurish Soviet planning, Stalinist excesses, and mistakes caused the famine of 1932-1933.
"Throughout the famine-genocide campaign however, the factors of drought and sabotage have been ignored, denied, downplayed or distorted. Soviet excesses and mistakes, in contrast, are emphasized, given an "anti-Ukrainian" motivation, described as consciously planned, and the results exaggerated in depictions of starvation deaths in the multi-millions.
"Fraudulent photographs and suspect evidence are extensively used to embellish charges of 'genocide,' and are in face the dominant images of the campaign. The sheer volume of non-authentic material used to support the genocide claim should be itself grounds for outright rejection of such a dubious thesis.........................
"......By cutting through the tangled web of fraudulent evidence, Nazi and fascist connections, cover-ups of wartime collaboration, and questionable scholarly research, it is my hope that this book will contribute to exposing the political myth of Ukrainian genocide. The historical study of the famine of 1932-1933 deserves an objective and non-propagandistic approach" [Pages 2-3]
CONTENTS:
FRAUD
1. Thomas Walker: The Man Who Never Was
2. The Hearst Press: The Campaign Continues
3. Famine Photographs: Which Famine?
4. Cold War I: Black Deeds
5. The Numbers Game
6. Cold War II: The 1980s Campaign
7. Harvest of Deception
FAMINE
8. The Famine
FASCISM
9. Collaboration and Collusion
10. War Criminals, Anti-Semitism and the Famine-Genocide Campaign
APPENDIX
From Third Reich Propagandist to Famine-Genocide Author
Notes
Bibliography
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Quebec, Douglas Tottle has spent most of his life in Western Canada. Tottle has worked as a photographer and a photo-lab technician, fine artist, underground miner, and as a steelworker. An active trade unionist, Tottle edited the United Steelworkers journal "The Challenger" from 1975 to 1985, during the time the paper received over 20 international and Canadian journalism awards. Tottle has also worked as a labour history researcher, and as an organizer. During the 1970s he assisted the organizing drive of Chicano farmworkers in California and worked with Native Indian farmworkers in Manitoba. Tottle has written for various Canadian and U.S. periodicals, magazines, and labour journals. [from page at the beginning of the book]
From the back of the book:
"Douglas Tottle exposes the fraudulent charge of famine-genocide made against the USSR . . . Skillfully Tottle traces the labyrinthine history of the 'evidence' - documentary and photographic - on its convoluted passage from nazi publications to the Hearst press to the misfounded "scholarship" of such present-day Kremlinologists as Robert Conquest. Tottle's sharp and engagingly written investigation is useful and intelligent. The author makes up an important contribution by exposing the ways and wiles of anti-Communist propaganda."
-Clarence J. Munford
Professor of History
University of Guelph
"For almost 70 years the study of the Soviet Union has been trapped in a sea of distortion, lie and propaganda. While this has not always been one-sided, its overall effect has been to stimulate fear, suspicion and danger of war. In the present age of new thinking about the history of socialism in the USSR, it remains necessary to deal with and disperse at least the worst of the lies. Tottle's book demonstrates clearly the viciousness surrounding the theory of the Ukrainian genocide and hopefully will open the way to genuine stufy of the Ukrainian road to socialism."
David Whitefield
Professor of History
University of Calgary
From the INTRODUCTION to the book:
"The mass collectivization of agriculture and an ambitious industrialization program were the central features of the first five-year plan launched in 1929. Collectivization met with active opposition from sections of the peasantry, and in many areas the struggle approached the scale of civil war. Drought (a complicating factor), widespread sabotage, amateurish Soviet planning, Stalinist excesses, and mistakes caused the famine of 1932-1933.
"Throughout the famine-genocide campaign however, the factors of drought and sabotage have been ignored, denied, downplayed or distorted. Soviet excesses and mistakes, in contrast, are emphasized, given an "anti-Ukrainian" motivation, described as consciously planned, and the results exaggerated in depictions of starvation deaths in the multi-millions.
"Fraudulent photographs and suspect evidence are extensively used to embellish charges of 'genocide,' and are in face the dominant images of the campaign. The sheer volume of non-authentic material used to support the genocide claim should be itself grounds for outright rejection of such a dubious thesis.........................
"......By cutting through the tangled web of fraudulent evidence, Nazi and fascist connections, cover-ups of wartime collaboration, and questionable scholarly research, it is my hope that this book will contribute to exposing the political myth of Ukrainian genocide. The historical study of the famine of 1932-1933 deserves an objective and non-propagandistic approach" [Pages 2-3]
CONTENTS:
FRAUD
1. Thomas Walker: The Man Who Never Was
2. The Hearst Press: The Campaign Continues
3. Famine Photographs: Which Famine?
4. Cold War I: Black Deeds
5. The Numbers Game
6. Cold War II: The 1980s Campaign
7. Harvest of Deception
FAMINE
8. The Famine
FASCISM
9. Collaboration and Collusion
10. War Criminals, Anti-Semitism and the Famine-Genocide Campaign
APPENDIX
From Third Reich Propagandist to Famine-Genocide Author
Notes
Bibliography
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Quebec, Douglas Tottle has spent most of his life in Western Canada. Tottle has worked as a photographer and a photo-lab technician, fine artist, underground miner, and as a steelworker. An active trade unionist, Tottle edited the United Steelworkers journal "The Challenger" from 1975 to 1985, during the time the paper received over 20 international and Canadian journalism awards. Tottle has also worked as a labour history researcher, and as an organizer. During the 1970s he assisted the organizing drive of Chicano farmworkers in California and worked with Native Indian farmworkers in Manitoba. Tottle has written for various Canadian and U.S. periodicals, magazines, and labour journals. [from page at the beginning of the book]
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