There is today a consensus in Ukraine that it constituted an act of genocide by Stalin’s government against Ukrainians, but no such agreement exists in the West- Western works tend to neglect the national issue altogether- (David R. Marples, ‘Debate, Ethnic Issues in the Famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine’, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 61, no. 3 (May 2009), pp. 505-518)