Editing Robert Conquest (section)

===''The Harvest of Sorrow'' (1986)===
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In 1986 Conquest published ''[[The Harvest of Sorrow|The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine]]'', dealing with the collectivization of agriculture in [[Ukraine]] and elsewhere in the USSR, under Stalin's direction in 1929–31, and the resulting famine, in which millions of peasants died due to [[starvation]], [[deportation]] to [[labor camp]]s, and execution. In this book, Conquest supported the view that the famine was a planned act of genocide.<ref name=Telegraphobit/> According to historians [[Stephen Wheatcroft]] and [[R. W. Davies]], "Conquest holds that Stalin wanted the famine... and that the Ukrainian famine was deliberately inflicted for its own sake." Nevertheless, he wrote to them in a letter in 2003 that "Stalin purposely inflicted the 1933 famine? No. What I argue is that with resulting famine imminent, he could have prevented it, but put 'Soviet interest' other than feeding the starving first thus consciously abetting it."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wheatcroft|first=Stephen|date=June 2006|title=Stalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932–33: A Reply to Ellman|url=https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS2319/h16/pensumliste/stalin-and-the-soviet-famine-of-1932-33_-a-reply-to-ellman.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818094844/http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS2319/h16/pensumliste/stalin-and-the-soviet-famine-of-1932-33_-a-reply-to-ellman.pdf |archive-date=2017-08-18 |url-status=live|journal=Europe-Asia Studies|volume=58|issue=4|pages=625–633}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1= Wheatcroft |first1=Stephen G.|last2=Davies |first2= R. W. |author-link= |date=2016 |title= The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4s1lCwAAQBAJ&dq=the%20years%20of%20hunger&pg=PA441 |location= |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |page=441 |isbn=9780230273979}}</ref>