Robert Conquest, the Harvest of Sorrow.
This book was published in the 1980’s, and
has become a critical text in understandings
of Holodomor. It was one of the first
English language books to be published
about Holodomor, and much of the content
had not been published before. It is
considered a definitive source on the subject.
I bought a copy of this book after I
found out about Holodomor, during work on
my previous film The Accident in 2007.
I haven’t read all, or most of the book,
it is graphic and difficult to read, with 
images from Holdomor published in black
and white. Some of the language used
has changed since, for example, uses of
Holodomor, and Terror-Famine, the word
famine I was asked to avoid, as it suggests
a natural, rather than man made event.
This I consider to be a starting point in
my films, and explorations of Ukraine in the
early 1930’s. It also appears to be a
starting point for much of the current
publishing on Holodomor, and is a widely
respected, and well researched text. 
This will be a good sourcebook for information
I am creating to accompany my work, a
series of timelines and collections of data,
and factual content about Holodomor. The
out of date nature of the text shows to
some degree how much work has been
completed on Holodomor, this work was
published before Ukrainian Independence in 1991.