enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Holodomor genocide question - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor_genocide_question

    They also point out that during non-famine years, mortality rate in Ukraine was lower than in the rest of the Soviet Union (18 per 1,000 compared to 22 per 1,000), however in 1933, when mortality in Belarus and Russia increased to 30 per 1,000, in Ukraine it jumped to 60 per 1,000, while famine mortality rate was four to six times higher in ...

  3. Causes of the Holodomor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Holodomor

    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.

  4. Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in...

    [24] [25] [26] Vallin et al. estimated that the disasters of the decade culminated in a dramatic fall in fertility and a rise in mortality. Their estimates suggest that total losses can be put at about 4.6 million, 0.9 million of which was due to forced migration, 1 million to a deficit in births, and 2.6 million to exceptional mortality. [27]

  5. 'A unique tragedy': Memories of the Holodomor famine haunt ...

    www.aol.com/news/unique-tragedy-memories...

    WASHINGTON — In 2015, Ukrainian and American officials in Washington, D.C., unveiled a memorial to the Holodomor, the intentional starvation of some 4 million Ukrainians by the Soviet dictator ...

  6. Genocides in history (World War I through World War II)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history...

    Memorial to victims of the Holodomor in Kharkiv. During the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, Ukraine, ... (with a death rate of 23.5% for all groups).

  7. List of genocides - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides

    The exact death toll is unknown, although scholarly sources estimate the number of Arabs killed to be between 13,000 and more than 20,000. [ 166 ] [ 167 ] 25% or more of the Arab population (50,000 people) of Zanzibar were killed by the end of 1964.

  8. U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Commission_on_the...

    The commission was set up by Senate resolution S2458 (98th Congress) on September 21, 1984. The 99th Congress, on January 3, 1985, passed appropriations to fund the Famine Commission and on April 23, 1986, the Commission held its organizational meeting at the Rayburn House Office Building "to conduct a study of the 1932–33 Ukrainian Famine in order to expand the world’s knowledge of the ...

  9. Holodomor: The Unknown Ukrainian Tragedy (1932–1933)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor:_The_Unknown...

    Holodomor – The Unknown Ukrainian Tragedy (1932-1933) is a book coordinated by José Eduardo Franco and Beata Cieszynska, published by Grácio Editor in June 2013. This book "is a pioneer of its kind in Portuguese language and context, bringing to the audience touching pages of history that many would want to erase, and still today, after eighty years, lead to controversial readings.