Dr. Serge Cipko's Starving Ukraine: The Holodomor and Canada's Response is announced the winner of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies biennial Book Award
30 September 2020
CIUS is pleased to share that Dr. Serge Cipko's Starving Ukraine: The Holodomor and Canada's Response (University of Regina Press, paperback, 2018, ISBN 9780889775602) is announced the winner of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies biennial Book Award.
Serge Cipko's Starving Ukraine: The Holodomor and Canada's Response, meticulously documents reporting about the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine and Canadian responses to it in the years 1932-34. Based on an exceptionally rich source base, including evidence from numerous archives and a survey of over ninety Canadian and foreign newspapers, Cipko reveals that abundant information about the famine was available to the Canadian government and circulated in the mainstream English- and French-language press, as well as in Ukrainian-Canadian newspapers. He carefully traces how various groups came to understand what was going on in the Soviet Union and the emergence of a community-based campaign to have the Canadian government respond. And he shows how the nature of the international environment meant that there was in fact little that Canada and Canadians could do to alleviate the suffering. This readable book is an important contribution to Holodomor studies, to Ukrainian-Canadian history, and to the history of the press in 1930s Canada.
Dr. Serge Cipko is an historian and Assistant Director of Research, CIUS.