
After having listened to this week’s lectures and after having studied carefully the assigned readings for week 9, read the newspaper article attached (“Hunger in the Ukraine,” The Manchester Guardian. Monday 27 March 1933 – see bottom of instructions) and analyze the following images.
The Manchester Guardian. Monday 27 March 1933.docx
Keep in mind these questions:
• What do all these documents tell us about Stalin’s Russia?
• What do these documents tell us about the process of collectivization and industrialization?
• What is the relationship between propaganda and everyday life emerging from these sources?
• What would you argue comparing the British article (“Hunger in the Ukraine”), the material produced by the regime (images 1, 2 and 4), and the picture taken in Kharkiv (image 3)?
1. “Come Comrade! Join the Kolkhoz!”
2. “We, the kolkhoz farmers, are liquidating the kulaks as a class, on the basis of complete collectivization.”
3. Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv (Ukraine), 1933
4. “The Smoke of Chimneys is the Breath of Soviet Russia”
Please write a short post of around 300 words to answer my questions