TO: HOLODOMOR 75TH COMMEMORATION 2008 WORKING GROUP

THREE ARTICLES ------------
 
1. THE LATEST UKRAINIAN QUARTERLY DEVOTED TO HOLODOMOR
75th anniversary of the Holodomor special double issue
 
Action Ukraine Report (AUR), Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, November 29, 2008

KYIV - The Ukrainian Quarterly, Vol. LXIV, Numbers 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2008), is devoted to the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor. A list of the contents in the special Holodomor double issue is found below.  The Ukrainian Quarterly is a Journal of Ukrainian and International Affairs that has been published since 1944. 

For over six decades, insightful articles and commentaries have followed one of Europe's largest nations -- Ukraine, and its drive for independence.
The Ukrainian Quarterly's roster of distinguished writers had the unique foresight to recognize and describe the direction of political and social affairs in Eastern Europe and the Communist world in general, as well as in the years before the monumental changes of 1989-1991. Now, The Ukrainian Quarterly follows Ukraine as it moves to reassert itself in the European and international arena.
 
The Ukrainian Quarterly is published in the USA by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA).  A yearly subscription is $50. The Special Holodomor double issue is $25.00.   To order a yearly subscription or the special Holodomor issue please send a check or money order to The Ukrainian Quarterly, 203 Second Ave., New York, NY 10003, telephone 212 228 6840, e-mail: [email protected].

CONTENTS:

ARTICLES:
A Note on the Holodomor in Imaginative Literature / Leonid Rudnytzky
The Cross / Mykola Rudenko
A Psychodynamic Interpretation of the Holodomor in Mykola Rudenko's Poem "The Cross" / Ivan Z. Holowinsky
Subject Analysis in Accessing Holodomor Resources / Jurij Dobczansky
George Kennan and Ukraine / Iwan S. Koropeckyj
 
DOCUMENTS AND MATERIALS:
The Case for Seven to Ten Million / Askold S. Lozynskyj
The Holodomor: Ukraine's Genocide, Ethnocide and Linguicide / Orest Popovych
A Light for the Future / Andre Armand Cardinal Vingt-Trois
Cry for Justice to Heaven / Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger

REVIEW ARTICLES: 
Holubnychy and the Holodomor / Christopher Ford
The Causes of the Famine of 1932-33 / Vsevolod Holubnychy
The Holodomor in Historical and Literary Context: The Yellow Prince by Vasyl Barka / Jean-Pierre Cap
The Holodomor-Genocide of 1932-1933 and Ukrainian Independence / Yaroslav Bilinsky

BOOK REVIEWS:  
Holodomor 1932-1933 rokiv v Ukraini: dokumenty i materialy (ed. Ruslan Pyrih)
ozsekrechena pamiat (ed. Valentyna Borysenko) / Taras Hunczak
Holodomor v Ukraini 1932-1933 rr. bibliohrafichnyi pokazhchyk (ed. L. Burian and I. Rikun) / Dmytro Shtohryn
 
NOTE: The Action Ukraine Report (AUR) thanks Jurij Dobczansky for sending us this material.
 
2.  HOLODOMOR LECTURE IN CANADA ON NOV 30 AND DEC 7
"From Holod to Holodomor: Bolshevik Genocide in Ukraine and the Kuban"
 
Action Ukraine Report (AUR), Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, November 29, 2008

KYIV - Yevhen Zakharov, the head of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group, Kharkiv, Ukraine, will deliver a lecture on the Holodomor in Winnipeg (Canada) on Sunday, November 30, at 3 p.m. in the Prosvita Institute  (777 Pritchard). Yevhen Zakharov was invited to Canada by The Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Canada (UVAN).
 
The lecture ("From Holod to Holodomor:  Bolshevik Genocide in Ukraine and the Kuban") is based on Mr. Zakharov's study of the legal evaluation of the Holodomor as genocide, considered the best such produced in Ukraine (and available in Ukrainian, Russian, and English versions at the Kharkiv Group's website at http: http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1221299499.)

Yevhen Zakharov, a recent recipient of a prestigious Ukrainian honour, the Presidential Order of Freedom, will speak on the same topic in Montreal on Sunday, December 7, by invitation of UVAN's co-sponsors, the Montreal Branch of the Congress of Ukrainians in Canada (KUK). He is also to visit Toronto and Ottawa before returning to Ukraine.  Just before taking off for Winnipeg, Zakharov will take part in the following press event in Kyiv:  http://maidan.org.ua/static/news/2007/1227770841.html.

3.  NEW BOOK: HOLODOMOR: REFLECTIONS ON THE
GREAT FAMINE OF 1932-1933 IN SOVIET UKRAINE 

Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation (UCCLF), Ottawa, Canada, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008

OTTAWA - To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor, the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation is supporting the publication of a series of  essays by leading journalists, public intellectuals and scholars titled: "Holodomor: Reflections on the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine" (edited by L. Y. Luciuk, The Kashtan Press, 2008).

The goal of this campaign is to send copies of this book to major international repositories as well as public and university libraries, in a bid to make information about the causes and consequences of the Holodomor available to a wide audience.

Holodomor-denial continues: Only if books exist on library shelves worldwide can we begin to undo the disinformation that exists about the Holodomor.

Donations are tax-deductible; income tax receipts will be issued.  If you are able to donate $250 or more, you or the library of your choice will receive a copy of this important new book.

Please make your cheque payable to: The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation, 48 Wood Crest Close SW, Calgary, AB, T2W 3P9. Donations can also be made by credit card by visiting: www.canadahelps.org. Your donation will help us remember the Holodomor's victims and educate the world about this Soviet crime against humanity. Please contact [email protected] for more information.
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