Five Stalks of Grain Adrian Lysenko and Ivanka Theodosia Galadza, ill. University of Calgary Press, Nov. During the 1930s, the Holodomor, a man-made famine, killed millions of Ukrainians. At the time, Soviet officials vowed to execute any person found to be hoarding even “five stalks of grain.” This poignant (and, sadly, timely) work of historical