Blain's Farm & Fleet is a regional chain of 38 retail stores in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa.
Even so, work by Yang and others has proved that senior leaders in Beijing knew of the famine as early as 1958. To distribute resources evenly will only ruin the Great Leap Forward, Mao warned colleagues a year later. When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death.
It was in the 1980s that the Famine of 1932â1933 in Ukraine became the subject of serious academic study. The publication of Robert Conquestâs ground-breaking The Harvest of Sorrow in 1986 in particular focused attention on what has come to be known as the Holodomor.