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The Kazakh famine of 1930–1933, also known as the Asharshylyk, [a] was a famine during which approximately 1.5 million people died in the Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, then part of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in the Soviet Union, of whom 1.3 million were ethnic Kazakhs. [4]
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.
Death toll (where known; estimated) 2200 BC – 2100 BC: The 4.2-kiloyear event caused famines and civilizational collapse worldwide: Global: 441 BC: The first famine recorded in ancient Rome. Ancient Rome [1] 114 BC Famine caused by drought during the third year in the Yuanding period. Starvation in over 40 commanderies east of the Hangu ...
Apart from a famine, Kazakhstan suffered from stopping of all factories. From 1929 to 1934, when Joseph Stalin was trying to collectivize agriculture , Kazakhstan endured repeated famine called Asharshylyk similar to the Holodomor [ 17 ] in Ukraine ; in both republics and the Russian SFSR, [ 18 ] peasants slaughtered their livestock in protest ...
The most significant factors that shaped the ethnic composition of the population of Kazakhstan were the 1920s and 1930s famines. According to different estimates of the effects of the Kazakh famine of 1930–1933, up to 40% of Kazakhs (indigenous ethnic group) either died of starvation or fled the territory. [11]
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 ...
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Blacklisting of villages in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and the North Caucasus: 1932-1933 Ukraine, Kazakhstan, North Caucasus Unknown; hundreds of farms and dozens of districts affected. Some blacklisted areas [34] in Kharkiv could have death rates exceeding 40% [35] while in other areas such as Stalino blacklisting had no particular effect on ...