“Five Ears of Grain”: Students Created a Guide to Works About the Holodomor

A convenient guidebook to works of Ukrainian literature on the topic of the Holodomor and mass man-made famines of 1921–1923 and 1946–1947 has appeared online. The students of the Institute of Philology of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv created it.

The guidebook “Five Ears of Grain” will take you through the darkest pages of Ukrainian history. “It would be better if they never existed; there were no reasons for creating such works—but they exist, and therefore we must know our own,” the project’s authors emphasise. Yes, we must preserve collective memory and remind ourselves of what happens to nations and countries that have lost their independence.

The literature on the project website is divided into three sections: “Prose,” “Poetry” and “Documentary”. Here, you will find a brief description of the works and a link to the page where you can read them. Among the authors are Pavlo Tychyna, Valerian Pidmohylnyi, Mykola Kulish, Todos Osmachka, Ivan Bahrianyi, Ulas Samchuk, Vasyl Barka, Hryhir Tiutiunnyk, Olha Mak, Yevhen Hutsalo, Svitlana Talan and others.

Visit the guide and choose a work for a difficult and thoughtful reading.