Listen to a podcast about this controversy in journalism: ‘The New York Times’ can’t shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize
Walter Duranty, pictured in 1936 at a luncheon given in his honor by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents at the Hotel Lombardy in New York, repeatedly defended Soviet Premier Josef Stalin.
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Visit the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium to learn more about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine. Check out their Special Collections with digital photo archive and videos of oral histories from survivors.
Photo from Alexander Wienerberger: Innitzer Album
How Joseph Stalin Starved Millions in the Ukrainian Famine
Grain confiscated from a family derided as "kulaks" in the village of Udachoye in Ukraine.
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Read this article from Gale to learn about the significance of the Holodomor famine.
Seen here on 28 June 2023, in Washington, D.C., is a plaque at the memorial for the Holodomor (a Ukrainian word referring to the death of millions of people by forced starvation in Ukraine in the early 1930s). Viewed as an instance of genocide, the Holodomor was the Soviet Union's attempt, under the direction of Joseph Stalin, to crush the Ukrainian peasantry. The memorial in Washington, D.C., which opened in 2015, was constructed by the Ukrainian government together with the U.S. National Park Service.
Learn more about Katherine Marsh, author of The Lost Year, Nowhere Boy, Medusa: Myth of Monsters, and more!
Katherine and her grandmother lived together when she was a child. Her grandmother's story inspired her to write The Lost Year.
Russia and Ukraine: the tangled history that connects—and divides—them
Pedestrians in Odessa, a port city on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine, walk past a sign heralding Soviet themes of power and justice in 1991—the year Ukraine became an independent nation and the USSR was dissolved.
Photograph by Bertrand Desprez, Agence VU/Redux
