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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 caused by drought during the third year in the Yuanding period. Starvation in over 40 commanderies east of the Hangu mountain pass. [2] China: 103 BC – 89 BC: Beminitiya Seya during the reign of the Five Dravidians [3] Anuradhapura Kingdom: 26 BC: Famine recorded throughout Near East and Levant, as recorded by Josephus: Judea: 20,000 ...

  4. 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 ...

  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. European immigration to the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Between 1815 and 1930, 60 million Europeans emigrated, of which 71% went to North America, 21% to Latin America, and 7% to Australia. [1] This mass immigration had as a backdrop economic and social problems in the Old World , allied to structural changes that facilitated the migratory movement between the two continents.

  8. Rural American history - Wikipedia

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    The Southern Country Store, 1800-1860 (LSU Press, 1949) online; Ayers, Edward L. The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (2007) online; Barron, Hal S. Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930 (1997) online copy of the book see also online review of this book

  9. List of wars involving Russia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of wars and armed conflicts involving Russia and its predecessors in chronological order, from the 9th to the 21st century.. The Russian military and troops of its predecessor states in Russia took part in a large number of wars and armed clashes in various parts of the world: starting from the princely squads, opposing the raids of nomads, and fighting for the expansion of the ...