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Unlike the Russian famine of 1921–1922, Russia's intermittent drought was not severe in the affected areas at this time. [31] Despite this, historian Stephen G. Wheatcroft says that "there were two bad harvests in 1931 and 1932, largely but not wholly a result of natural conditions", [32] within the Soviet Union.
An American charity postcard showing the scale of the deadly Russian famine of 1921–1922. Throughout Russian history famines, droughts and crop failures occurred on the territory of Russia, the Russian Empire and the USSR on more or less regular basis. From the beginning of the 11th to the end of the 16th century, on the territory of Russia ...
1932–1933: Soviet famine of 1932–1933, including famine in Ukraine, and famine in Kazakhstan, caused by Soviet collectivization policy, abnormal cold period, [125] and bad harvests in the years of 1931–1932. [126] Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Kazakh ASSR: 5,000,000 [126] – 7,000,000 [127] 1939–1952
Russia has always maintained that the famine was a natural disaster. That argument was most famously endorsed by the New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty, an unabashed apologist for Stalin ...
The following lists events that happened during 1932 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents ... Soviet famine of 1932–33; January
The Holodomor, [a] also known as the Ukrainian Famine, [8] [9] [b] was a mass famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.
Russian famine of 1891–1892; Russian famine of 1921–1922; S. 1922 seizure of church valuables in Russia; Soviet famine of 1930–1933; Soviet famine of 1946 ...
In 1932, he wrote in the pages of The New York Times that "any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda". [25] He said that while there was a bad harvest, and consequent food shortages, it did not rise to the level of a famine and that "there is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation, but there is ...