About the book: 2009 / The basis of this book, the purpose of which is to show the causes, scale and consequences of the famine that struck in 1932-1933. the southern regions of the USSR: Ukraine, Kazakhstan, the North Caucasus, Western Siberia, the Volga region, the Urals, the Central Black Earth Region, are based on archival materials, evidence, scientific research materials. The author of the book is Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor N.A. Ivnitsky, a recognized expert on the history of the peasantry of the late 1920-1930s, was born in the south of Russia and, together with his family, survived the terrible years of famine. For a wide range of readers, researchers, graduate students and students.