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 933 Holodomor
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DESCRIPTION:Drawing on communist secret services archives\, this talk will 
 reveal a previously unknown GPU mass operation that swept Soviet Ukraine d
 uring winter 1932-1933\, predating the Great Terror by years. Using interd
 isciplinary methods\, the analysis demonstrates an extraordinarily high co
 rrelation between GPU planned "liquidations" and regional mortality rates\
 , establishing secret police violence as integral to genocidal policy. Thi
 s lecture reconceptualizes what Soviet documents called "operational press
 ure" as a systematic mass operation initiated from Moscow and reperiodizes
  Stalinist terror\, revealing the first peak of repressions during the Hol
 odomor\, before the 1937-1938 Terror\, while offering new frameworks for c
 omparative genocide studies and illuminating hidden mechanisms through whi
 ch the Soviet regime implemented murder by famine.\n\nPlease click here to
  RSVP.\n\nDr. Andriy Kohut is Director of the Sectoral State Archive of th
 e Security Service of Ukraine and Stuart Ramsey Tompkins Visiting Professo
 r at the University of Alberta. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Taras She
 vchenko National University of Kyiv and an M.A. from Ivan Franko Lviv Nati
 onal University. In 2022\, he suspended his Fulbright Fellowship at Stanfo
 rd University following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Dr. Kohut
  has published numerous scholarly articles and edited collections from dec
 lassified KGB archives. His research interests include Soviet deportations
 \, the Holodomor\, communist secret services\, memory politics\, and cultu
 ral diplomacy.
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LOCATION:Encina Commons\, Rm. 123
SUMMARY:Winter of Terror: The GPU's Mass Operation During the 1932–1933 H
 olodomor
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 ass-operation-during-the-19321933-holodomor
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