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Forced collectivization helped achieve Stalin's goal of rapid industrialization but it also contributed to a catastrophic famine in 1932–1933. [ 37 ] According to some scholars, collectivization in the Soviet Union and other policies by the Soviet state were the primary contributors to famine mortality (52% of excess deaths), and some ...
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.
The causes of the Holodomor, which was a famine in Soviet Ukraine during 1932 and 1933 that resulted in the death of around 3–5 million people, are the subject of scholarly and political debate, particularly surrounding the Holodomor genocide question.
The Holodomor, [a] also known as the Ukrainian Famine, [8] [9] [b] was a human-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.
At the height of the famine, 28,000 people were dying daily, even as food and grain continued to flow to Russia. “Parents take whatever they find to their children, but they die themselves,” a ...
Major causes include the 1932–33 confiscations of grain and other food by the Soviet authorities which contributed to the famine and affected more than forty million people, especially in the south on the Don and Kuban areas and in Ukraine, where by various estimates millions starved to death or died due to famine related illness (the event ...
Stalin's version of the five-year plan was implemented in 1928 and took effect until 1932. [2] The Soviet Union entered a series of five-year plans which began in 1928 under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Stalin launched what would later be referred to as a "revolution from above" to improve the Soviet Union's domestic policy.
Getty also attributes the failure of Soviet authorities to relieve the famine, once they realised it was going on, to Stalin's paranoia and chaotic decision-making. Getty writes that Stalin's reaction to the famine between 1932–1933 resembles his reaction to the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. In Getty's view ...