The Foreign Office and the famine: British documents on Ukraine and the great famine of 1932-1933

agricultural areas asked August bazaar black bread British butter Cairns cattle cent centners per hectare Central collective farms collectivisation Collier Committee Communist party Council cows crops decree Department despatch districts Document Duranty Embassy Empire Marketing Board Esmond Ovey export factory famine famine conditions Foreign Affairs Foreign Office German grain collection grain deliveries grammes harvest hectares Herriot horses hungry individual peasants July June Kharkov Kiev kolhoz kulaks labour Laurence Collier letter litre million month Moscow North Caucasus Ogpu organisation poor population produce recently regions relief reply Rostov roubles roubles per kilo roubles per pound Russia Schiller shortage Siberia Sir John Simon sovhoz Soviet authorities Soviet Government Soviet Union sown spring wheat Stalin starvation starving station T. A. Shone told town tractors villages visited Volga Vyvyan weeds Western Siberia William Strang winter wheat workers yield