This volume is based on presentations at a colloquium held in Boulder, Colorado, in August 1985. It is divided into four parts. Part I includes a general introduction to the problems and prospects for development in Africa. Part II contains chapters that focus on internal and external factors...

"This is a collection of conference papers that discuss the causes, dynamics, demographic impact, and consequences of the pan-Soviet famines of 1931-33, the Ukrainian Holodomor, the Kazakh great hunger, and the terrible famine of 1959-61 in China produced by the Great Leap Forward."--