Soviet Famines
As the historian James Mace has correctly written, the Soviet famines of 1931-1933 which struck many regions of the U S S R (especially Ukraine, Kazakhstan and regions of the Volga), were an unprecedented catastrophe in which meteorology played merely a tiny part. These were “man-made famines”, a d...
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Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire
2021
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| Summary: | As the historian James Mace has correctly written, the Soviet famines of 1931-1933 which struck many regions of the U S S R (especially Ukraine, Kazakhstan and regions of the Volga), were an unprecedented catastrophe in which meteorology played merely a tiny part. These were “man-made famines”, a direct consequence of a policy of extreme violence – forced collectivization campaigns – implemented by the Stalinist regime in 1930. As a direct consequence of a specific policy, but obviously not ... |
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