Between August 1933 and spring 1934, more than seven million peasants were starved to death in Ukraine by deliberate Soviet national policy. This immense man-made famine was the final effort of Stalin to gain political control over the peasantry. On the 50th anniversary of this horrible event, details of the famine were discussed at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, by:
- Robert Conquest, of the Hoover Institution and the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown
- Dana Dalrymple, of the US Department of Agriculture
- James Mace, of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Michael Novak, who holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair for Public Policy Research at AEI, moderated the discussion.