EE Sample 3: The causes of the Holodomor famine, 1932 - 33 (New criteria A grade)
To what extent was the Holodomor famine, between 1932 and 1933, deliberately imposed by the Soviets in order to crush “irremediably hostile” [1] Ukrainian nationalism? Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-famine, Pimlico ed. (London: Pimlico, 2002), 3-4. Introduction Between 1932 and 1933 an estimated 5 million people starved to death in Soviet Ukraine, most of them peasants....