University of Barcelona

This project seeks to examine the attitudes regarding collectivization and the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Spanish political and social landscapes between 1929 and 1936. The social catastrophe in Soviet Ukraine overlapped with the instabilities of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1936). The absence of diplomatic relationships between Spain and the Soviet Union mirrored the complexity of Spanish perception of the Soviet Union and response to the famine. Analyzing a wide range of primary sources, this project will establish what was the level of awareness about the famine in Soviet Ukraine in Republican Spain and what were the political and social perceptions of the man-made catastrophe in Ukraine and other starving regions of the Soviet Union.