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  2. Kazakh famine of 1930–1933 - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. List of famines - Wikipedia

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    Famine due to the low water level of the Nile impacting food prices [16] Egypt: 100,000: 1224–1226: Famine: Europe: 1230: Famine in the Novgorod Republic [citation needed] Russia: 1230–1231: The Kanki famine, possibly the worst famine in Japan's history. [24] Caused by volcanic eruptions. [25] Japan: 2,000,000: 1235: Famine in England [26 ...

  4. Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Soviet famine of 1930–1933 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union

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    The causes of the famine were different, from natural (droughts, crop failures, low rainfall in a certain year) and economic and political crises; for example, the Great Famine of 1931–1933, colloquially called the Holodomor, the cause of which was, among other factors, the collectivization policy in the USSR, which affected the territory of ...

  7. History of Kazakhstan - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Kazakhstan famine of 1932-1933 - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Kazakhstan famine of 1932-1933

  9. Blacklisting (Soviet policy) - Wikipedia

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    Blacklisting, [1] or the system of the chorna doshka (Ukrainian: чорна дошка, lit. 'black board') synonymous with a "board of infamy", was one of the elements of agitation-propaganda in the Soviet Union, and especially Ukraine and the Kuban region in the 1930s, and is considered as one of the instruments of the Holodomor.