The collection is dedicated to one of the most dramatic and "closed" pages of the history of the Ukrainian people - the famine of 1932-1933. For the first time, unique, only declassified archival materials reflecting the true causes, chronological course and consequences of the tragedy were published. The articles of scientists highlight the socio-economic and moral aspects of the implementation of the Stalinist policy of collectivization and grain procurement in the republic, which directly caused food difficulties, and then terrible hunger.