The publication of sources on the history of the 1932-1933 famine-genocide: history, current state, and prospects.

For obvious reasons the first documentary publications about the FamineGenocide of 1932-1933 could not be based on the Ukrainian archives. Western scholars and researchers from the Ukrainian diaspora took the lead in publishing sources in order to reveal this crime. For more than half a century the only documents to bear witness to the Famine-Genocide were ones that remained outside the control of the ideological operations of the Soviet totalitarian system. Typically such evidence was revealed through the testimony of eyewitnesses who were fortunate enough to survive and flee abroad, or that of foreigners (journalists, diplomats) who were not afraid to tell the truth about the events of the 1930s on the territory of Soviet Ukraine. The first such publication appeared as early as 1934 in Vienna in the form of a small brochure in English and German entitled The Famine: Authentic Documentation of the Mass Starvation in the Soviet Union.1 Owing to the efforts of researchers and political leaders of the Ukrainian diaspora, the two-volume English-language collection entitled The Black Deeds of the