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Famine et transformation agricole en URSS
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ISBN: 9782376071143 Year: 2017 Publisher: Paris : Éditions Delga,

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La 4e de couverture indique : "De sa formation originelle au Xe siècle jusqu’aux XIXe et XXe siècles, la Russie a connu un long passé de famines (plus de quatre cents recensées). En URSS, la NEP, que Lénine dut mettre en place suite à la guerre dite « civile », n’était pas parvenue à éradiquer ce fléau, comme le démontrent les famines de 1924 et 1928. Dans l’espoir d’y mettre un terme, l’URSS s’inspira des conseils des meilleures fermes industrielles américaines pour lancer la collectivisation. De fait, après la famine de 1932-1933, il n’y eut pas d’autre famine majeure avant celle de 1946 qui se situait dans les difficiles conditions de l’après-Seconde Guerre mondiale. Autrement dit, ce n’est pas la collectivisation qui a créé la famine, mais c’est au contraire la collectivisation qui l’a éradiquée. Quant à la thèse conspirationniste qui attribue au régime soviétique la volonté de tuer par la faim les nationalistes ukrainiens, les recherches de Mark Tauger, historien reconnu de l’agriculture russe et auteur d’une histoire mondiale de l’agriculture, contestent cette interprétation trop largement répandue et véhiculée notamment par Robert Conquest et Timothy Snyder. Contrairement à ce que disent ces auteurs, le régime a réduit ses exportations de blé et distribué des millions de tonnes de vivres à partir de ses réserves pour contrer la famine, ce qui invalide l’image d’une famine artificiellement créée. De plus, la famine ne se limitait pas à l’Ukraine, mais a touché pratiquement toute l’Union soviétique et elle résultait d’abord d’une série de catastrophes naturelles qui ont diminué considérablement les récoltes. Plus important encore, le régime soviétique dépendait pour sa survie de la paysannerie et s’est appuyé sur elle pour surmonter la famine. Les paysans ont ainsi produit une plus grande récolte en 1933, malgré les conditions tragiques dans lesquelles ils ont dû travailler. Ces éléments montrent que la collectivisation a permis la mobilisation et la répartition des ressources, comme l’usage des tracteurs, l’aide aux semences et l’aide alimentaire, afin de permettre aux agriculteurs de produire une bonne récolte pendant une famine sans précédent dans l’histoire russe puis soviétique. Enfin, l’un des désastres naturels qui causa la famine de 1933 incita le scientifique soviétique Pavel Loukianenko à créer de nouvelles variétés de blé, ce qui fut à l’origine de la révolution verte soviétique. Né en 1954, Mark B. Tauger est un historien américain, spécialisé dans l’histoire de la Russie, de l’URSS et dans l’histoire de l’agriculture. Il est professeur associé à l’université de Virginie- Occidentale. Il a passé son Ph.D. en 1991 à l’université de Californie à Los Angeles. Ses travaux portent notamment sur la famine soviétique de 1933, mais aussi sur l’ensemble du contexte agricole russe puis soviétique."


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East Africa's quiet famine : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, March 28, 2017.
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office,

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Africa's current and potential famines : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, June 15, 2017.
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office,

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Gleanings in the West of Ireland
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ISBN: 1536127442 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Nova Science Publishers,

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"Sidney Godolphin Osborne's eyewitness famine narrative Gleanings in the West of Ireland is a text that is currently both neglected and misunderstood. Written and published in July of 1850, Osborne's Gleanings recounts his summer 1850 journey with an unnamed friend into the heart of late-stage famine Ireland. Most Irish Famine scholars have overlooked Gleanings, but those few who have examined Osborne's work tend to portray him as an unsympathetic, or even voyeuristic, famine "tourist." This is a mischaracterization, for in fact Osborne's aim in his 1850 Irish visit was to report on the condition of Western Ireland's famine victims. Far from touring Ireland for pleasure, Osborne's primary goal was to examine eleven Poor Law Unions in counties Limerick, Clare, Galway, and Mayo, and secondarily to ascertain the amount of recent evictions in those counties and the circumstances of the newly houseless tenants. Osborne journeyed into western Ireland in both 1849 and 1850 in order to gather information with which to rebuke current governmental relief schemes and the Irish Poor Laws of 1838 and 1847, and also to attempt to stir compassion in his English readers in the hopes that their outrage would result in Parliamentary action to increase, clarify, and better administer Famine relief aid: "as to the Irish peasantry being deserving of the sympathy I and very many others would seek to excite in their favour, I can only say, that I can conceive no class of human beings on this earth, whose condition, every way, can be worse. I know no one ingredient in the catalogue of those dark ingredients which enter into the composition of human suffering, which is not to be found in the cup from which they have, of late years, been compelled to drink."--Provided by publisher.


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Africa's current and potential famines : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, June 15, 2017.
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East Africa's quiet famine : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, March 28, 2017.
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Un planeta sobrepoblado y platos vacíos : la nueva geopolitica de la escasez de alimentos
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ISBN: 9587389360 9587389379 9587389352 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bogotá D.C. : Editorial Universidad del Rosario : Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Sostenible CEID Colombia : Klimaforum Latinoamérica Network (KLN),

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La nueva obra de Lester Brown tiene como propósito ayudar a la gente a reconocer el momento por el cual la sociedad atraviesa. El autor menciona que el mundo puede estar mucho más cerca de una inimaginable crisis alimentaria, llena de precios inalcanzables, distribución ineficiente de alimentos e inestabilidad política que mucha gente sentirá. Esta publicación es un esfuerzo del grupo de investigación del Earth Policy Institute para aumentar la comprensión pública del reto que significa la seguridad alimentaria e inspirar a la acción. Esta obra cuenta con cifras de 2012, es una obra actualizada en el contexto mundial que analiza estadísticamente las implicaciones del cambio climático sobre la disponibilidad de alimentos, desde las antiguas civilizaciones hasta la sociedad contemporánea. Lo anterior cataloga esta obra como pionera en el tema de seguridad alimentaria desde una perspectiva holística y sistemática.


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Famine in European history
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ISBN: 9781107179936 9781316631836 1316631834 9781316841235 1107179939 1316846253 1316844013 1316841235 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This is the first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present. In case studies ranging from Scandinavia and Italy to Ireland and Russia, leading scholars compare the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine. The famines they describe differ greatly in size, duration and context; in many cases the damage wrought by poor harvests was confounded by war. The roles of human action, malfunctioning markets and poor relief are a recurring theme. The chapters also take full account of demographic, institutional, economic, social and cultural aspects, providing a wealth of new information which is organized and analyzed within a comparative framework. Famine in European History represents a significant new contribution to demographic history, and will be of interest to all those who want to discover more about famines - truly horrific events which, for centuries, have been a recurring curse for the Europeans.


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Red famine : Stalin's war on Ukraine
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ISBN: 9780385538855 0385538855 9780385538862 9780804170888 0804170886 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Doubleday,

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"From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes--the consequences of which still resonate today In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization--in effect a second Russian revolution--which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: after a series of rebellions unsettled the province, Stalin set out to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry. The state sealed the republic's borders and seized all available food. Starvation set in rapidly, and people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases, they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. Today, Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more. Applebaum's compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the twenty-first."--Provided by publisher.


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Famine and Finance : Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland
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ISBN: 3319317652 3319317644 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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parts of chapters 2 and 3, and 4 have also been published in companion articles in the Journal of Development Economics and the World Bank Economic Review.

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