UCCLA issues documentary collection on Famine-Genocide (11/13/05)

UCCLA issues documentary collection on Famine-Genocide

CALGARY, Alberta - With the assistance of the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association of Calgary and other donors, the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA) has just published a collection of Soviet-era documents dealing with the causes and consequences of the 1932-1933 Famine in Soviet Ukraine, the Holodomor.

Compiled and edited by Prof. Yuri Shapoval of Kyiv, translated by Marta D. Olynyk, and with a foreword by Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, this 336-page book, "The Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine" (Kingston: Kashtan Press, 2005, ISBN# 1-896354-38-6, $35) consists of 81 documents (mainly in Russian, some in Ukrainian) complemented with English-language annotations, a list of acronyms and an introductory essay (in English and Ukrainian). A final document, dated May 15, 2003, is the statement in Ukraine's Parliament that recognized the Famine as a genocidal act.

Commenting on the release of this documentary collection, UCCLA's director of research, Dr. Luciuk, said: "Until scholars and students outside Ukraine have access to primary source materials on the Holodomor there will always be those who dispute the nature and consequences of this politically engineered Famine. Our intention was to help Prof. Shapoval make his selection of documents available, first by publishing them in book form, and then by distributing them to international repository libraries. We are pleased to note that the book is now being catalogued in selected libraries, from Russia to Israel, the United States, Australia and Japan."

"Limited resources made it impossible to have a large print run but we are grateful to those donors who know the importance of placing such books in the public domain" Dr. Luciuk noted. "And, of course, we have been able to do so just before this year's official commemorations of the Holodomor, which will take place across Ukraine on November 26. Much, much more work of this sort needs to be done if the world is ever going to recognize the unprecedented nature of this Soviet crime against humanity."

Copies of the collection may be purchased for $35 (U.S.) from: Ukrainian American Civil Liberties Association, P.O. Box 2031, New York, NY 10013-0874.

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