Red Apocalypse: Through Dekulakization and the Great Famine

The manuscripts of Dmytro Goychenko (1903-1993) were accidentally discovered in 1994 in the San Francisco emigrant archive. These are unique pieces of evidence about the horrible times of Soviet collectivization and the Great Famine in Ukraine (southeastern regions, Odessa, Kyiv and Kyiv region.)
Practically no descriptions of the misanthropic communist regime so detailed as in this book have survived among the historical memoirs until now. These manuscripts were first published in 2006 in the Russian Memoir Library series of the “Russian Way” (Russky Put’) publishing house with the solid afterword by Pavlo Protsenko.
Dmytro Goychenko wrote all the three books in the late 1940s—early 1950s, hotfoot on his bygone experiences, using the notes miraculously carried out from the prison. The author of these priceless pieces of evidence was born in the peasant family. Fated to being in the ranks of the militant oppressors of their own social class, he was pursuing a successful career. Because Goychenko belonged to the Party and to Soviet nomenclature, he possessed versatile information about the state of affairs inside the society.
Gradually seeing the light, Goychenko was tensely scrutinizing and analyzing everything seen and experienced before. It turned his memoirs into a real encyclopedia of the tragic Ukrainian Great Famine epoch.

The book is printed in the source language. This is the only book our publishing house consciously published in Russian in Ukraine (the text itself demonstrates that back then not only the author’s soul but also his language had been twisted), for the book to be read as well by those who are still enticing Ukraine into the “communist paradise”…
The cover design was made based on a well-known poster of the Prague Museum of Communism.