Review of the book “The Hunger Games”: the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 in History, Historiography and Historical Politics” Banska Bistrica: Belgium, 2020. 270 p. ISBN 978-80-557-1765-4 author Vyacheslav Kraskovsky, Mikhail Miguel, Lizaveta Dubinka-Gushc

Abstract

In modern political practice, the use of events of the historical past is often observed in order to justify the legitimization of power or the formation of an idea that can unite society. To a large extent, this is typical of post-Soviet states, which, among other things, are trying to determine their attitude to the history of the USSR and its heritage. Politicians offer the only correct, in their opinion, assessment of the past, which they are trying to consolidate in the form of resolutions and legislative acts. One of the problems causing heated scientific and political disputes is the problem of the famine of 1932-1933 in the USSR. An international team of researchers consisting of Professor V. I. Menkovsky (Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus), Dr. M. Shmigel (University named after him) tried to trace how this issue is presented in history, historiography and historical politics. Matej Bela, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia) and Dr. E. Dubinka-Guschy (Copenhagen Higher School of Economics, Denmark). They presented their conclusions and observations in the bilingual, English-Russian edition "The Hunger Games: the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 in History, Historiography and Historical Politics".