MOORE

Question 1

Who published first eyewitness accounts of the Ukrainian famine?

Answer 1

Malcom Muggeridge and Gareth Jones

Question 2

When was the first international conference on the famine?

Answer 2

Montreal 1983

Question 3

What is the Harvest of Despair

Answer 3

It is a documentary made in 1984 that is based on the Ukrainian famine.

Question 4

When did the Ukrainian famine become part of the American school curriculum on human rights and genocide?

Answer 4

1985

Question 5

When and who first described the Ukrainian famine as genocide?

Answer 5

1984 by James E. Mace

Question 6

What was the first in depth scholarly account of the famine and who was it written by?

Answer 6

1986 by Robert Conquest

Question 7

What does Moore suggest about Robert Conquest book?

Answer 7

That he presents the famine as being planned

Question 8

When did the United States commission on the Ukrainian famine makes its final report to US congress?

Answer 8

April 1988

Question 9

What did the US report to congress say on whether the famine was a genocide?

Answer 9

That Joseph Stalin and those around him committed genocide between the years 1932-1933

Question 10

What does Moore give as a counterview to the famine being a genocide?

Answer 10

That Ukrainians were not directly targeted, but rather the peasant class all together. Famine was also not inclusive to the Ukraine. Kazakhstan also experienced famine.

Question 11

When and by who was the second monograph on the famine published and what was it called?

Answer 11

2004. Years of Hunger. R.W. Davies and Stephen Wheatcroft.

Question 12

What was R.W Davies and Stephen Wheatcroft argument?

Answer 12

That the famine was brought on not by a direct will to eliminate a people but that the famine was a consequence of decisions to industrialize the peasants at an unrealistic speed by men with little formal education and limited knowledge of agriculture.

Question 13

What are Moores views on victimhood and Usefulness?

Answer 13

Moore is referring to the idea that once there was a rediscovery of the famine in the 1980s that victims wanted to elevated as to feel “useful” and part of the discussion of genocide so their pain and suffering is seen

Question 14

What did philosopher Berel Lang say about Genocide?

Answer 14

That the term genocide has come to be used when all other words of moral or political opprobrium fail, and the writer wishes to indict a set of actions as extraordinaire for their malevolence and heinousness

Question 15

When did the UN create a legal definition for genocide and what was it called?

Answer 15

Convention on the prevention and punishment of genocide. December 9 1948

Question 16

How is the genocide defined by the UN?

Answer 16

acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial, or religious group.

Question 17

Why does Moore see the UN definition of Genocide to be “political compromise”?

Answer 17

Original drafting at the UN convention include political and social groups in the definition but it came under scrutiny from countries one of which and the most avid to change the definition was soviet Russia.