This is a select bibliography of English language academic level books and journal articles, published mainly after World War II, about the history of the Holodomor and its historical context.

The Holodomor, was a massive man-made famine genocide in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.

Works listed here are cited in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly sources. Each is published by an academic or major press, written by a recognized expert, or substantially reviewed in scholarly journals; borderline cases are omitted. A selection of primary sources are included. Many of the books below carry their own bibliographies; see the Further reading section for other bibliographies, and the External links section for historical sites, academic sites, and museums.

Citations follow APA style. Book have citations to academic journal or mainstream published reviews when available. For books only partly about the subject, relevant chapter or section titles are provided when useful and available. Translators of the original-language edition are included when possible. In cases where a title or name has appeared with more than one English spelling, the most recent published form is used and a footnote documents any earlier title under which the work appeared.

General Antonovych, M. (2015). Legal accountability for the Holodomor-genocide of 1932–1933 (Great Famine) in Ukraine. Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, 1, 159–176. Applebaum, A. (2017). Red famine: Stalin's war on Ukraine. Doubleday. Bilinsky, Y. (1999). Was the Ukrainian famine of 1932–1933 genocide? Journal of Genocide Research, 1(2), 147–156. Cameron, S. (2018). The hungry steppe: Famine, violence, and the making of Soviet Kazakhstan. Cornell University Press. Cherfas, T. (2013). Reporting Stalin's famine: Jones and Muggeridge: A case study in forgetting and rediscovery. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 14(4), 775–804. Conquest, R. (1986). The harvest of sorrow: Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine. Oxford University Press. Courtois, S., Werth, N., Panné, J.-L., Paczkowski, A., Bartošek, K., & Margolin, J.-L. (1999). The black book of communism: Crimes, terror, repression (J. Murphy & M. Kramer, Trans.). Harvard University Press. Curran, D., Luciuk, L., & Newby, A. G. (Eds.). (2015). Famines in European economic history: The last great European famines reconsidered. Routledge. Davies, R. W., & Wheatcroft, S. G. (2002). The Soviet famine of 1932–33 and the crisis in agriculture. In S. G. Wheatcroft (Ed.), Challenging traditional views of Russian history (pp. 69–91). Palgrave Macmillan. Davies, R. W., & Wheatcroft, S. G. (2004). The years of hunger: Soviet agriculture, 1931–1933 (The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Vol. 5). Palgrave Macmillan. Davies, R. W., & Wheatcroft, S. G. (2006). Stalin and the Soviet famine of 1932–33: A reply to Ellman. Europe-Asia Studies, 58(4), 625–633. Dmytrychyn, I. (2021). The voyage enchanté of Edouard Herriot in Ukraine. Ukraïna Moderna, 30–31, 216–232. Dreyer, N. (2018). Genocide, Holodomor and Holocaust discourse as echo of historical injury and as rhetorical radicalization in the Russian–Ukrainian conflict of 2013–18. Journal of Genocide Research, 20(4), 545–564. Ellman, M. (2005). The role of leadership perceptions and of intent in the Soviet famine of 1931–1934. Europe-Asia Studies, 57(6), 823–841. Ellman, M. (2007). Stalin and the Soviet famine of 1932–33 revisited. Europe-Asia Studies, 59(4), 663–693. Fitzpatrick, S. (1994). Stalin's peasants: Resistance and survival in the Russian village after collectivization. Oxford University Press. Fonzi, P. (2020). Non-Soviet perspectives on the Great Famine: A comparative analysis of British, Italian, Polish, and German sources. Nationalities Papers, 48(3), 444–459. Gamache, R. (2013). Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor. Welsh Academic Press. Gamache, R. (2014). Breaking eggs for a Holodomor: Walter Duranty, the New York Times, and the denigration of Gareth Jones. Journalism History, 39(4), 208–218. Graziosi, A. (1996). The great Soviet peasant war: Bolsheviks and peasants, 1917–1933. Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. Graziosi, A. (2005). The Soviet 1931–1933 famines and the Ukrainian Holodomor: Is a new interpretation possible, and what would its consequences be? Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 27(1/4), 97–115. Graziosi, A., Hajda, L. A., & Hryn, H. (Eds.). (2013). After the Holodomor: The enduring impact of the great famine on Ukraine. Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. Graziosi, A. (2020). Introduction to the special issue on the Soviet famines of 1930–1933. Nationalities Papers, 48(3), 435–443. Hryn, H. (Ed.). (2008). Hunger by design: The great Ukrainian famine and its Soviet context. Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. Irvin-Erickson, D. (2017). Raphaël Lemkin and the concept of genocide. University of Pennsylvania Press. Isajiw, W. W. (Ed.). (2003). Famine-genocide in Ukraine, 1932–1933: Western archives, testimonies and new research. Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre. Kazyrytski, L. (2026). Extermination by starvation and genocide in Ukraine, 1932–1933. Journal of International Criminal Justice. Advance online publication. Khiterer, V. (2020). The Holodomor and Jews in Kyiv and Ukraine: An introduction and observations on a neglected topic. Nationalities Papers, 48(3), 460–475. Kis, O. (2021). Women's experience of the Holodomor: Challenges and ambiguities of motherhood. Journal of Genocide Research, 23(4), 527–546. Klid, B., & Motyl, A. J. (Eds.). (2012). The Holodomor reader: A sourcebook on the famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. Klid, B. (Ed.). (2022). Empire, colonialism, and famine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. Klymenko, L. (2016). The Holodomor law and national trauma construction in Ukraine. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 58(4), 341–361. Kulchytsky, S. (2018). The famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine: An anatomy of the Holodomor (A. Kinsella, Trans.). Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. Kulʹchytsʹkyi, S. (2015). The Holodomor of 1932–33: How and why? East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2(1), 93–116. Kuromiya, H. (2008). The Soviet famine of 1932–1933 reconsidered. Europe-Asia Studies, 60(4), 663–675. Lemkin, R. (2008). Soviet genocide in the Ukraine. In L. Y. Luciuk (Ed.), Holodomor: Reflections on the great famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine (pp. 235–242). Kashtan Press. (Original work written ca. 1953) Levchuk, N., Wolowyna, O., Rudnytskyi, O., Kovbasiuk, A., & Kulyk, N. (2020). Regional 1932–1933 famine losses: A comparative analysis of Ukraine and Russia. Nationalities Papers, 48(3), 492–512. Luciuk, L. Y. (Ed.). (2004). Not worthy: Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize and the New York Times. Kashtan Press. Luciuk, L. Y. (Ed.). (2008). Holodomor: Reflections on the great famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine. Kashtan Press. Mace, J. E. (1988). The politics of famine: American government and press response to the Ukrainian famine, 1932–1933. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 3(1), 75–94. Makuch, A., & Sysyn, F. E. (Eds.). (2015). Contextualizing the Holodomor: The impact of thirty years of Ukrainian famine studies. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. Markevich, A., Naumenko, N., & Qian, N. (2025). The causes of Ukrainian famine mortality, 1932–33. Review of Economic Studies, 92(5), 3276–3305. Marples, D. R. (2007). Heroes and villains: Creating national history in contemporary Ukraine. Central European University Press. Marples, D. R. (2009). Ethnic issues in the famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine. Europe-Asia Studies, 61(3), 505–518. Martin, T. (2001). The affirmative action empire: Nations and nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939. Cornell University Press. Moore, R. (2012). "A crime against humanity arguably without parallel in European history": Genocide and the "politics" of victimhood in Western narratives of the Ukrainian Holodomor. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 58(3), 367–379. Motyl, A. J. (2010). Deleting the Holodomor: Ukraine unmakes itself. World Affairs, 173(3), 25–33. Naimark, N. M. (2010). Stalin's genocides. Princeton University Press. Naimark, N. M. (2015). How the Holodomor can be integrated into our understanding of genocide. East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2(1), 117–131. Naumenko, N. (2021). The political economy of famine: The Ukrainian famine of 1933. The Journal of Economic History, 81(1), 156–197. Nefedov, S., & Ellman, M. (2019). The Soviet famine of 1931–1934: Genocide, a result of poor harvests, or the outcome of a conflict between the state and the peasants? Europe-Asia Studies, 71(6), 1048–1065. Prown, H. H. (2025). "Every rotten slander": Holodomor denial and the origins of the American popular front. Politics, Religion & Ideology, 26(1), 1–19. Rudnytskyi, O., Levchuk, N., Wolowyna, O., Shevchuk, P., & Kovbasiuk, A. (2015). Demography of a man-made human catastrophe: The case of massive famine in Ukraine 1932–1933. 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Towards explaining Soviet famine of 1931–3: Political and natural factors in perspective. Food and Foodways, 12(2–3), 107–136. Wheatcroft, S. G. (2018). The turn away from economic explanations for Soviet famines. Contemporary European History, 27(3), 465–469. Wheatcroft, S. G. (2019). Soviet statistics under Stalinism: Reliability and distortions in grain and population statistics. Europe-Asia Studies, 71(6), 1013–1035. Wolowyna, O., Plokhy, S., Levchuk, N., Rudnytskyi, O., Shevchuk, P., & Kovbasiuk, A. (2016). Regional variations of 1932–34 famine losses in Ukraine. Canadian Studies in Population, 43(3–4), 175–202.