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The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine and different parts of Russia, including Kazakhstan, [6] [7] [8] Northern Caucasus, Kuban Region, Volga Region, the South Urals, and West Siberia.
Soviet famine of 1932–1933, including famine in Ukraine, and famine in Kazakhstan, caused by Soviet collectivization policy, abnormal cold period, [125] and bad harvests in the years of 1931–1932. [126] Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Kazakh ASSR: 5,000,000 [126] – 7,000,000 [127] 1939–1952
Cover of the Soviet magazine Kolhospnytsia Ukrayiny ("Collective Farm Woman of Ukraine"), December 1932. Approaches to changing from individual farming to a collective type of agricultural production had existed since 1917, but for various reasons (lack of agricultural equipment, agronomy resources, etc.) were not implemented widely until 1925, when there was a more intensive effort by the ...
Ukraine accused the Kremlin on Saturday of reviving the "genocidal" tactics of Josef Stalin as Kyiv commemorated a Soviet-era famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the winter of 1932-33.
Near the monument to Holodomor victims in Kyiv in 2006, a woman lights a candle in remembrance of the up to 10 million people who died in Ukraine during the famine of 1932-33. (Genia Savilov/AFP ...
The war in Ukraine is not the first to contribute to famine. One of modern history's most noted examples also involved Russia and Ukraine How a Post-War Famine in Russia and Ukraine Shaped the ...
Based on the Soviet population censuses taken before and after the famine years (1926 and 1939 respectively), Ukraine lost over 3 million of the existing population (-9.9%), plus another 3 million minimum lost natural population growth; the decline contrasts sharply with the rise of 11.3% in neighboring Belarus and of 15.7% for the Soviet Union ...
After recognition of the famine situation in Ukraine during the drought and poor harvests, the Soviet government in Moscow continued to export grain rather than retain its crop to feed the people, [106] though at a lower rate than in previous years. [107] In 1930–31, there had been 5,832,000 metric tons of grains exported.