The most recent famine in Soviet and European History killed at least one million people in 1946-47, mostly in Ukraine and Moldova. However, we know much less about this famine than others in Soviet history. The Soviet state repressed news of the 1946/47 famine at the time. English-language scholarship on the family is small and the topic is much less addressed in the Russian and Ukrainian scholarship compared to the Holodomor of 1932/33.

In this lecture we draw on recently declassified Soviet sources to illustrate the interaction of numerous factors in understanding famine causation, duration, mortality and contextualise it in broader Soviet and world history to understand its broader significance and enduring consequences.

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