Douglas Tottle (born 1944)[1] is a Canadian trade union activist and journalist, most notable for being the author of the book Fraud, Famine, and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard, which is grouped as Holodomor denial literature by the United States Library of Congress.
[7] Tottle has been defended by the Stalin Society,[8] author Jeff Coplon, educator Grover Furr, and the Swedish Communist Party, all of whom counter that his book exposed the "myth of the famine-genocide [...] once and for all".
[12] Tottle argues that although mistakes in Soviet economic policy were contributors to the famine, other factors including kulak sabotage, hoarding of grain, weather conditions and foreign sanctions also contributed.
[citation needed] Tottle's book was examined during the Brussels sitting of the commission,[10] held between May 23–27, 1988, with testimony from various expert witnesses.
Commission president Jacob Sundberg subsequently concluded that Tottle was not alone in doubting a "famine-genocide", alluding to the fact that material included in his book could not have been made available without official Soviet assistance.