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t. e. 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. [9][10] Major factors included the forced collectivization of agriculture ...
12 August 1935. (1935-08-12) (aged 29) Inner Mongolia, [1] China. Occupation. Journalist. Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones (13 August 1905 – 12 August 1935) was a Welsh journalist who in March 1933 first reported in the Western world, without equivocation and under his own name, the existence of the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, including the ...
Holodomor in modern politics. v. t. e. The causes of the Holodomor, which was a famine in Soviet Ukraine during 1932 and 1933, resulted in the death of around 3–5 million people. The factors and causes of the famine are the subject of scholarly and political debate, which include the Holodomor genocide question.
The military history of the Soviet Union began in the days following the 1917 October Revolution that brought the Bolsheviks to power. In 1918 the new government formed the Red Army, which then defeated its various internal enemies in the Russian Civil War of 1917–22. The years 1918–21 saw defeats for the Red Army in the Polish–Soviet War ...
The ten years 1917–1927 saw a radical transformation of the Russian Empire into a socialist state, the Soviet Union. Soviet Russia covers 1917–1922 and Soviet Union covers the years 1922 to 1991. After the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), the Bolsheviks took control. They were dedicated to a version of Marxism developed by Vladimir Lenin.
From 1930 onwards, the Party and police officials feared the "social disorder" caused by the upheavals of forced collectivization of peasants and the resulting famine of 1932–1933, as well as the massive and uncontrolled migration of millions of peasants into cities. The threat of war heightened Stalin's and generally Soviet perception of ...
Incumbents. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin. Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin. Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Alexei Rykov (until 19 December), Vyacheslav Molotov (starting 19 December)
The Winter War [F 6] was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Despite superior military strength, especially in tanks and aircraft, the ...