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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.
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]
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 ARA's famine relief operations ran in parallel with much smaller Mennonite, Jewish and Quaker famine relief operations in Russia. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The ARA's operations in Russia were shut down on June 15, 1923, after it was discovered that the Soviet Union clandestinely renewed the export of grain to Europe.
Some historians and scholars consider that this famine amounted to genocide of the Kazakhs. [20] The Soviet authorities undertook a campaign of persecution against the nomads in the Kazakhs, believing that the destruction of the class was a worthy sacrifice for the collectivization of Kazakhstan.
In February 1930, there was an anti-Soviet insurgency in the village of Sozak. [6] On 5 December 1936, the ASSR was detached from the RSFSR and made the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic , a full union republic of the Soviet Union.
1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. ... Kazakh famine of 1930–1933