Uploaded on 17 Jan 2012
Petro Jacyk Program for the Study
of Ukraine, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
presents: Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture "The Ukrainian Holodomor:
Stalin and Genocide" by Prof. Norman Naimark (Robert and Florence
McDonnell Professor in East European Studies, Stanford University)
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 6 November 2011.
- Concept of Genocide and how it is applied to Ukraine; famine of
1932-1933; hunger, survivors of famine
- Killer famine, history of genocide; review evidence; classification
of genocide; victim groups 1:24
- December 1948 UN Convention on the prevention and punishment of
Genocide, 2:05
- Josef Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovych 2:25
- Resistance to consider the Holodomor a case of genocide 2:40
- Famine struck all parts of the Soviet countryside equally 3:00
- Russian government, like the Turkish government in its denial of the
Armenian genocide, actively promotes scholarship and public affairs
programs that attempt to defunct the idea of special persecution of
Ukrainians during the famine 3:14
- BBC world services 3:35
- Stalin statue blown up by Ukrainian nationalist activists - called
terrorists by the Yanukovych government 3:40
- Stalin and his regime 4:00
- History of the concept of genocide itself; Raphael Lemkin 4:05
- Massacre of Armenians in 1915 4:47
- Brutal Spanish conquest of the new World 4:57
- "Crime of Barbarism" 5:04
- Vandalism and cultural genocide; destruction of churches, cemetaries,
language 5:55
- Rise of Nazism 6:21
- Third Reich invaded Poland in September 1939 6:35
- Carnegie Foundation 6:55
- Coined the term "genocide" 7:13
- Mass murder of Jews 7:55
- Nuremburg 1946; Nazi war criminals 8:56
- Hitlers crimes 9:35
- International law of genocide 10:25
Audio courtesy of Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, Centre
for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto: http://www.utoronto.ca/jacyk
Sponsored by:
(a) Ukrainian Canadian Congress
http://www.ucc.ca
(b) Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
http://www.ualberta.ca/cius
& http://www.ciuspress.com
(c) Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine
http://www.utoronto.ca/jacyk
(d) Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies
http://www.cfus.ca