Famines

Famines under communist rule — Soviet Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the Great Leap Forward, North Korea — their causes, their scale and their cover-ups.

• Repression Under Communism: Executions, Camps and Famines

  The documented human cost of communist rule — the Soviet Terror, China's famine, Cambodia's killing fields, North Korea's camps — with the evidence.

• Cuba's Special Period: The Crisis After the Soviet Collapse

  When Soviet support vanished, Cuba's economy shrank by a third and daily calories fell from 2,899 to 1,863: the 'Special Period' of the 1990s.

• The Great Chinese Famine, 1959–61: Mao's Great Leap Disaster

  How Mao's Great Leap Forward — communes, impossible grain targets, procurement and exports — caused the largest famine in history, killing 30–45 million.

• The Holodomor: Stalin's Famine in Ukraine, 1932–33

  How Stalin's grain seizures, village blacklists and a ban on flight turned a famine into the Holodomor, killing about four million people in Soviet Ukraine.

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