Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Soviet famine of 1932–1933, with areas where the effects of famine were most severe shaded. The deaths of 5.7 [26] to perhaps 7.0 million people [27] [28] in the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 and Soviet collectivization of agriculture are included among the victims of repression during the period of Stalin by some historians.
t. e. 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. [9][10] Major factors included the forced collectivization of agriculture ...
Official figures put the total number of documentable executions during the years 1937 and 1938 at 681,692, [171] [172] in addition to 116,000 deaths in the Gulag, [1] and 2,000 unofficially killed in non-article 58 shootings; [1] whereas the total estimate of deaths brought about by Soviet repression during the Great Purge ranges from 950,000 ...
Pre-1900 droughts and famines. In the 17th century, Russia experienced the famine of 1601–1603, as a proportion of the population, believed to be its worst as it may have killed 2 million people (1/3 of the population). Other major famines include the Great Famine of 1315–17, which affected much of Europe including part of Russia [2][3] as ...
[49] [50] [51] Stalin personally appended the stipulation: "People who encroach on socialist property should be considered enemies of the people." [citation needed] Within the first five months of passage of the law, 54,645 individuals had been imprisoned under it, and 2,110 sentenced to death. The initial wording of the decree, "On fought with ...
The Russian famine of 1921–1922, also known as the Povolzhye famine (Russian: Голод в Поволжье, ' Volga region famine') was a severe famine in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that began early in the spring of 1921 and lasted until 1922. The famine resulted from the combined effects of severe drought, [1] the ...
They were banned under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin but commonplace under later Kremlin leaders. Now, after less than a century, official attitudes about abortion in Russia are changing once again.
Female Soviet aviators of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment ("Night Witches"), 1943. Snipers Natalya Kovshova and Mariya Polivanova became posthumous heroines of the Soviet Union after committing suicide in battle to avoid capture by German forces. Soviet women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the ...