By the end of the 1920's, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
decided to curtail Ukraine's cultural autonomy,
launching the intimidation, arrest, imprisonment
and execution of thousands of Ukrainians
intellectuals, church leaders, as well as Communist
Party functionaries who had supported Ukraine's
distinctiveness.
There were 3,900,000 people who died in the
Holodomor (man-made famine).
Holodomor ended in 1933. Collectivization was
complete with all farmlands becoming a socialist
property and all farmers working for the state.
According to recent demographic studies,
13.3 percent of Ukraine's population died
at the time of the Holodomor.
Collectivization led to a drop in production,
the disorganization of the rural economy, and
food shortages. It also sparked a series of
peasant rebellions, including armed uprisings, in some parts
of Ukraine. The result of Stalin's policies was the
Great Famine (Holodomor) of 1932-33--a man made
famine.
Holodomor, man -made famine convulsed the
Soviet republic of Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, peaking
in the late spring of 1933. It was part of a broader
Soviet famine (1931-1934) that also caused mass
starvation in the grain-growing regions of Soviet Russia
and Kazakhstan.
{Kazakhstan is a Central Asian country and former Soviet
republic, south of Russia, extends from the Caspian Sea in the west to
the Altai Mountains at its eastern border with China
and Russia. Its largest metropolis, Almaty, is a long-standing
trading hub. Kazakhstan is a country in central
Asia that shares borders with Russia, China, and the Central Asian
countries}.
The Ukrainian famine, however, was made
deadlier by a series of political decrees and decisions
that were aimed mostly or only at Ukraine.
In acknowledgement of its scale, the famine of
1932-33 is often called the HOLODOMOR,
a term derived from the Ukrainian words for
hunger ( holod) and extermination (mor).
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Collectivization meaning: The act or process of
organizing a people, industry, enterprise, etc.,
according to collectivism, an economic system
in which control, especially of the means of
production, is shared cooperatively or
centralized
{After World War 1 Russia introduced
a full-scale command economy, including
the collectivization of agriculture and
the nationalization of almost all
industrial capital}.
Intensive collectivization began during the
winter of 1929-30. Stalin called upon the party
to "liquidate the Kulaks as a class"
(December 27,1929), and the Central
Committee resolved that an "enormous
majority" of the peasant households
should be collectivized by 1933. Harsh
measures--including land confiscations,
arrests, and deportations to prison camps
were inflicted upon all peasants who
resisted collectivization. By March 1930
more than one-half of the peasantry
(a larger proportion in the agriculturally
rich southwestern region of the Soviet Union.
had been forced to join collective farms.
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