Non-Soviet Scholarship on (he Ukrainian Famine

Thus, the facts are firmly established; the motives are consistent with all that is known of Stalinist attitudes; and the verdict of history cannot be other than one of criminal responsibility.116

Such a conclusion combines the best of “mainstream” Sovietological research with the best of non-Soviet Ukrainian scholarship. From the evidence to be examined below, we will see that, while this may be supplemented, there is little in it that must be changed.