Communism and the World — The Holodomor

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is hosting “Communism and the World,“ a webinar series to complement VOC’s curricular resource, Communism: Its Ideology, Its History, and Its Legacy. Dr. Alexander Motyl is a scholar, poet, artist, and professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. He joined us for the seventh installment, discussing the 87th anniversary of the Stalin-era famine in Ukraine in which millions of people died of starvation. About the speaker: Dr. Alexander Motyl is a scholar and an artist. He is a professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the USSR, and on nationalism, revolutions, empires, and theory, he is the author of 10 books of nonfiction, including Pidsumky imperii; Puti imperii; Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires; Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits and Theoretical Possibilities; Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine after Totalitarianism; and The T