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{{Short description|1932–1933 human-made famine in Soviet Ukraine}}
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'''The Ukrainian famine (1932-1933)''' or '''Holodomor''' was one of the largest national catastrophes of the ] in modern history with direct loss of human life in the range of millions (estimates vary). While the famine in ] was a part of a ] that also affected other regions of the ], the term ''Holodomor'' is specifically applied to the events that took place in territories populated by the ethnic Ukrainians.
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{{Infobox famine
| famine_name = <!-----Overrides {{PAGENAME}}, do not use without careful consideration)----->
| image = GolodomorKharkiv.jpg
| caption = Starved peasants on a street in ], 1933, Ukraine's capital at the time
| country = ]
| location = ], northern ],{{sfn|Naimark|2010|p=70}} ]
| coordinates = <!-----(use {{coord}})----->
| period = 1932–1933
| excess_mortality= <!-----Deaths directly due to famine starvation----->
| from_disease = <!-----Indirect famine deaths from subsequent diseases----->
| total_deaths =
* Around 3.5 to 5 million in Ukraine; see ]
* 62,000 to "hundreds of thousands" in the Kuban{{sfn|Osadchenko|Rudneva|2012}}<ref name="boeckbrian">{{cite journal |last1=Boeck |first1=Brian J. |title=Complicating the National Interpretation of the Famine: Reexamining the Case of Kuban |journal=Harvard Ukraine Studies |date=30 October 2023 |volume=30 |issue=1/4 |page=48 |jstor=23611465}}</ref>
* Over 300,000 ] dead or migrated{{sfn|Ohayon|2016}}
| death_rate = <!-----Death rate---->
| theory =
| relief = Foreign relief rejected by the state. 176,200 and 325,000 tons of grains provided by the state as food and seed aids between February and July 1933.{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004|pp=479–484}}
| food_situation = Deliberate macro-economic food extraction from affected region
| demographics =
| causes = * Industrialization policy during the ]
*Whether it was intentional is debated by scholars
| memorial = <!-- links to website? -->
| preceded =
| succeeded =
| footnotes = <!-----Test footnote----->
|native_name = {{nobold|Голодомор}}
| consequences =
* Heavy population loss in Ukraine
* Kuban Ukrainian population declined from 915,000 to 150,000 between 1926 and 1939 from various causes{{sfn|Ellman|2007}}
* Over 35% of ] lost in the famine{{sfn|Ohayon|2016}}
}}

The '''Holodomor''',{{Efn|{{langx|uk|Голодомо́р|Holodomor}}, {{IPA|uk|ɦolodoˈmɔr|IPA}};{{sfn|Jones|2017|page=90}} derived from {{langx|uk|морити голодом|lit=to kill by starvation|translit=moryty holodom|label=none}}); Also literally known as "Extermination by Hunger" or "Hunger-extermination"}} also known as the '''Ukrainian Famine''',<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 April 2019 |title=How Joseph Stalin Starved Millions in the Ukrainian Famine |url=https://www.history.com/news/ukrainian-famine-stalin |access-date=13 February 2024 |website=HISTORY |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Renate |first1=Stark |title=Holodomor, Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933: A Crime against Humanity or Genocide? |url=https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijass/vol10/iss1/2/ |publisher=Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies: Vol. 10: Iss. 1, Article 2 |access-date=September 14, 2024 |doi=10.21427/D7PQ8P}}</ref>{{Efn|{{langx|uk|великий український голод|translit=velykyi ukrainskyi holod}}}} was a human-made ] in ] from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of ]. The Holodomor was part of the wider ] which affected the major ] areas of the ].

While scholars are in consensus that the ] was man-made, it remains in dispute whether the Holodomor was directed at Ukrainians and whether it constitutes a ], the point of contention being the absence of attested documents explicitly ordering the starvation of any area in the Soviet Union. Some historians conclude that the famine was deliberately engineered by ] to eliminate a ] movement. Others suggest that the famine was primarily the consequence of rapid ] and ] of agriculture. A middle position is that the initial causes of the famine were an unintentional byproduct of the process of collectivization but once it set in, starvation was selectively weaponized and the famine was "instrumentalized" and amplified against Ukrainians as a means to punish Ukrainians for resisting Soviet policies and to suppress their ].

Ukraine was one of the largest grain-producing states in the USSR and was subject to unreasonably high grain quotas compared to the rest of the USSR in 1930.<ref name="Kulchytskystalinslave" /> {{efn|name=Marples 2009.}} This caused Ukraine to be hit particularly hard by the famine. Early estimates of the death toll by scholars and government officials vary greatly. A joint statement to the ] signed by 25 countries in 2003 declared that 7 to 10 million died.{{efn|name= UN signatory nations, 2003}} However, current scholarship estimates a range significantly lower with 3.5 to 5 million victims.<ref>{{harvnb|Gorbunova|Klymchuk|2020}}; {{harvnb|Kravchenko|2020}}; {{harvnb|Marples|2007|p=1}}; {{harvnb|Mendel|2018}}; {{harvnb|Yefimenko|2021}}</ref> The famine's widespread impact on Ukraine persists to this day.{{how|date=August 2024}}

Public discussion of the famine was banned in the Soviet Union until the '']'' period initiated by ] in the 1980s.{{sfn|Serbyn|2005|pp=1055-1061}} Since 2006, the Holodomor has ] by ], 33 other UN member states, and the ] as a genocide against the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet government. In 2008, the Russian ] condemned the Soviet regime "that has neglected the lives of people for the achievement of economic and political goals".{{sfn|National Museum of the Holodomor|2019}}
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== Etymology ==
''Holodomor'' literally translated from ] means "death by hunger", "killing by hunger, killing by starvation",{{sfn|Werth|2012|p=}}{{sfn|Werth|2007|p=132}}{{sfn|Graziosi|2005|p=464, 457}} or sometimes "murder by hunger or starvation."{{sfn|Fawkes|2006}} It is a ] of the Ukrainian {{langx|uk|holod|lit=]|label=none|italic=yes}}, and {{langx|uk|mor|lit=]|label=none|italic=yes}}. The expression {{langx|uk|holodom moryty |lit=|label=none|italic=yes}} means "to inflict death by hunger." The Ukrainian verb {{langx|uk|moryty|lit=|label=none|italic=yes}} ({{langx|uk|морити|lit=|label=none|italic=}}) means "to poison, to drive to exhaustion, or to torment." The ] form of {{langx|uk|moryty|lit=|label=none|italic=yes}} is {{langx|uk|zamoryty|lit=kill or drive to death|label=none|italic=yes}}.{{sfn|SumInUa Dictionary|2010}} In English, the Holodomor has also been referred to as the ''artificial famine'', ''terror-genocide'' and the ''great famine''.{{sfn|Serbyn|2005|pp=1055-1061}}{{sfn|Davies|2006|p=}}{{sfn|Boriak|von Hagen|2009}}

It was used in print in the 1930s in Ukrainian diaspora publications in ] as ''Haladamor'',{{sfn|Applebaum|2017|p=363}} and by Ukrainian immigrant organisations in the United States and Canada by 1978;{{sfn|Hryshko|1983}}{{sfn|Dolot|1985}}{{sfn|Hadzewycz|Zarycky|Kolomayets|1983}} in the ], of which Ukraine was a ], any references to the famine were dismissed as ], even after ] in 1956, until the declassification and publication of historical documents in the late 1980s made continued denial of the catastrophe unsustainable.{{sfn|Serbyn|2005|pp=1055-1061}}


Discussion of the Holodomor became possible as part of the Soviet '']'' ("openness") policy in the 1980s. In Ukraine, the first official use of ''famine'' was in a December 1987 speech by ]i, ], on the occasion of the republic's 70th anniversary.{{sfn|Graziosi|2004}} Another early public usage in the Soviet Union was in a February 1988 speech by Oleksiy Musiyenko, Deputy Secretary for ideological matters of the party organisation of the Kyiv branch of the ] in Ukraine.{{sfn|Musiienko|1988}}{{sfn|US Commission Report vol.1|p=67}}
Most modern scholars agree that the famine was caused by the policies of the government of the ] under ], rather than by natural reasons, and the Holodomor is sometimes referred to as the Ukrainian ],{{ref|USCommission}} {{ref|Monument}} {{ref|Pope}} {{ref|HR356}} implying that the Holodomor was engineered by the ] to specifically target the Ukrainian people in order to destroy the Ukrainian nation as a political factor and social entity.<ref name=Bilin99>{{cite journal | author=Yaroslav Bilinsky| title= Was the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 Genocide?| journal= Journal of Genocide Research | year= 1999| volume= 1| issue= 2| pages= 147&ndash;156 | url=http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/bilinsky.html }}</ref> While historians continue to disagree whether the policies that led to Holodomor fall under the ], numerous governments have officially recognized the Holodomor as such.


The term ''holodomor'' may have first appeared in print in the Soviet Union on 18 July 1988, when Musiyenko's article on the topic was published.{{sfn|Mace|2008|p=132}} ''Holodomor'' is now an entry in the modern, two-volume dictionary of the Ukrainian language, published in 2004, described as "artificial hunger, organised on a vast scale by a criminal ] against a country's population."{{sfn|Busel 2001}}
==Etymology==
The term Holodomor is derived from the Ukrainian expression 'Морити голодом' (''mor''yty ''hol''odom), which means "to inflict death by hunger".


According to Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, and Kai Struve, the Holodomor has been described as a "Ukrainian Holocaust". They assert that since the 1990s the term ''Holodomor'' has been widely adopted by ] in order to draw parallels to ]. However this term has been criticized by some academics, as the Holocaust was a heavily documented, coordinated effort by ] and its collaborators to eliminate certain ethnic groups such as Jews.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}} By contrast, there is no definitive documentation that Stalin directly ordered the mass murder of Ukrainians.{{sfn|Getty|2018}}{{sfn|Engerman|2009|p=}} Barkan et al. state that the term ''Holodomor'' was "introduced and popularized by the Ukrainian diaspora in North America before Ukraine became independent" and that the term 'Holocaust' in reference to the famine "is not explained at all."{{sfn|Barkan|Cole|Struve|2007}}
==Causes and outcomes==


== History ==
A policy of ] of agriculture was introduced. Agriculture in Ukraine was substantially affected, but contrary to some myths, it did not proportionally impact Ukraine the most. In Ukraine, in the beginning of 1932, 69% of households were collectivized compared to 83% in Lower Volga <ref> Wheatcroft and Davies</ref>
=== Scope and duration ===
The famine affected the Ukrainian SSR as well as the ] (a part of the ] at the time) in spring 1932,{{sfn|Pyrih, 1990; No. 1-132.}} and from February to July 1933,{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004|p=204}} with the most victims recorded in spring 1933. The consequences are evident in demographic statistics: between 1926 and 1939, the ] increased by only 6.6%, whereas Russia and Belarus grew by 16.9% and 11.7% respectively.{{sfn|USSR Census|1939}}{{sfn|Demoscope Weekly| 2012}} The number of ] decreased by 10%.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-29 |title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей. |url=https://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr_nac_26.php |access-date=2024-08-15 |archive-date=29 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229113741/https://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr_nac_26.php |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-20 |title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей. |url=https://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_39.php |access-date=2024-08-15 |archive-date=20 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520171244/https://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_39.php |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>


From the 1932 harvest, Soviet authorities were able to procure only 4.3 million tons of grain, as compared with 7.2 million tons obtained from the 1931 harvest.{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004|pp=470, 476}} Rations in towns were drastically cut back, and in winter 1932–1933 and spring 1933, people in many urban areas starved.{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004|p=xviii}} Urban workers were supplied by a ] system and therefore could occasionally assist their starving relatives in the countryside, but rations were gradually cut. By spring 1933, urban residents also faced starvation. It is estimated 70% to 80% of all famine deaths during the Holodomor in eight analyzed Oblasts in the Soviet Union occurred in the first seven months of 1933.{{sfn|Wolowyna|2021}}
At the same time, the "]s", industrial workers, mostly devoted Bolsheviks, were sent to help run the farms. In addition, they were to fight the increasing passive and active resistance to collectivisation by engaging in what was euphemistically referred to as "dekulakization": the arresting of ']s' — allegedly well to do farmers who opposed the regime and withheld grain — and transferring kulak families to the Urals and Central Asia where they were to be placed in others sectors of the economy such as timber. <ref>Wheatcroft and Davies </ref> It is documented that around 300,000 Ukrainians out of a population of about 30 million were subject to these policies in 1930-31. <ref>Stephen Wheatcroft and R.W Davies, ''The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture'', 1931-1933, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p.490</ref> However, Ukrainians composed only 15% of the total 1.8 million relocated kulaks.


The first reports of mass ] and deaths from starvation emerged from two urban areas of the city of ], reported in January 1933 by ] and ] ]s. By mid-January 1933, there were reports about mass "difficulties" with food in urban areas, which had been undersupplied through the rationing system, and deaths from starvation among people who were refused rations, according to the December 1932 decree of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party. By the beginning of February 1933, according to reports from local authorities and Ukrainian ] (secret police), the most affected area was ], which also suffered from epidemics of ] and ]. ] and Kyiv oblasts were second and third respectively. By mid-March, most of the reports of starvation originated from Kyiv Oblast.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}
Collectivization proved to negatively affect agricultural output everywhere, but since Ukraine was the most productive area (over 50% of ]n wheat originated from Ukraine in the beginning of 20th century), the effects here were particularly dramatic.


By mid-April 1933, ] reached the top of the most affected list, while Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Vinnytsia, and ] oblasts, and Moldavian SSR were next on the list. Reports about mass deaths from starvation, dated mid-May through the beginning of June 1933, originated from ]s in Kyiv and Kharkiv oblasts. The "less affected" list noted ] and northern parts of Kyiv and Vinnytsia oblasts. The Central Committee of the CP(b) of Ukraine Decree of 8 February 1933 said no hunger cases should have remained untreated.{{sfn|Pyrih, 1990; No. 343-403.}} '']'', which was tracking the situation in 1933, reported the difficulties in communications and the appalling situation in Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Reisenauer |first1=Troy Philip |title=The Great Famine in Soviet Ukraine: Toward New Avenues of Inquiry into the Holodomor |url=https://library.ndsu.edu/ir/bitstream/handle/10365/27445/The%20Great%20Famine%20in%20Soviet%20Ukraine%20Toward%20New%20Avenues%20of%20Inquiry%20into%20the%20Holodomor.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |page=26-28 |publisher=North Dakota State University |access-date=October 9, 2024 |date=2014}}</ref>
]


Local authorities had to submit reports about the numbers suffering from hunger, the reasons for hunger, number of deaths from hunger, food aid provided from local sources, and centrally provided food aid required. The GPU managed parallel reporting and food assistance in the Ukrainian SSR. Many regional reports and most of the central summary reports are available from present-day central and regional Ukrainian archives.{{sfn|Pyrih, 1990; No. 343-403.}}
As projections for agricultural production declined, so did collections by the state. For the 1932 harvest, it was planned that there would be 29.5 million tons in state collections of grain out of 90.7 million tons in production. But the actual result was a disastrous 55-60 million tons in production. The state ended up collecting only 18.5 million tons in grain.<ref>Wheatroft and Davies</ref> In fact, collections by the state were virtually the same in 1930 and 1931 at about 22.8 million tons. For 1932, they had significantly been reduced to 18.5 million tons. These were the total estimated outcomes of the grain harvests <ref>Stephen Wheatcroft and RW Davies, ''Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-33'', p.448</ref>


=== Causes ===
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While scholars are in consensus that the ] was man-made,<ref>{{harvnb|Andriewsky|2015|p=37}}: "Historians of Ukraine are no longer debating whether the Famine was the result of natural causes (and even then not exclusively by them). The academic debate appears to come down to the issue of intentions, to whether the special measures undertaken in Ukraine in the winter of 1932–33 that intensified starvation were aimed at Ukrainians as such."</ref><ref>{{cite journal|journal=American Political Science Review|doi=10.1017/S0003055419000066|page=571 |title=Mass Repression and Political Loyalty: Evidence from Stalin's 'Terror by Hunger' |date=2019 |last1=Rozenas |first1=Arturas |last2=Zhukov |first2=Yuri M. |volume=113 |issue=2 |s2cid=143428346 |quote=Similar to famines in Ireland in 1846–1851 (Ó Gráda 2007) and China in 1959–1961 (Meng, Qian and Yared 2015), the politics behind Holodomor have been a focus of historiographic debate. The most common interpretation is that Holodomor was 'terror by hunger' (Conquest 1987, 224), 'state aggression' (Applebaum 2017) and 'clearly premeditated mass murder' (Snyder 2010, 42). Others view it as an unintended by-product of Stalin's economic policies (Kotkin 2017; Naumenko 2017), precipitated by natural factors like adverse weather and crop infestation (Davies and Wheatcroft 1996; Tauger 2001).}}</ref> it remains in dispute whether the Holodomor was directed at Ukrainians and whether it constitutes a ], the point of contention being the absence of attested documents explicitly ordering the starvation of any area in the Soviet Union.{{Sfnm|1a1=Ellman|1y=2005|1p=824|2a1=Davies|2a2=Wheatcroft|2y=2006|2pp=628, 631}} Some historians conclude that the famine was deliberately engineered by ] to eliminate a ] movement.{{efn|name=Britannica "Holodomor"}} Others suggest that the famine was primarily the consequence of rapid ] and ] of agriculture. A middle position, held for example by historian Andrea Graziosi, is that the initial causes of the famine were an unintentional byproduct of the process of collectivization but once it set in, starvation was selectively weaponized and the famine was "instrumentalized" and amplified against Ukrainians as a means to punish Ukrainians for resisting Soviet policies and to suppress their ].{{sfn|Werth|2008}}

Some scholars suggest that the famine was a consequence of human-made and natural factors.{{sfn|Graziosi|2004}} The most prevalent man-made factor was changes made to agriculture because of rapid ] during the ].{{sfn|Kulchytsky2007- Evidential Gaps}}{{sfn|Fawkes|2006}}{{sfn| Marples|2005}} There are also those who blame a systematic set of policies perpetrated by the Soviet government under ] designed to exterminate the Ukrainians.{{efn|name=Britannica "Holodomor"}}{{sfn|Ellman|2005}}{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2002|p=77|loc= "he drought of 1931 was particularly severe, and drought conditions continued in 1932. This certainly helped to worsen the conditions for obtaining the harvest in 1932"}}{{sfn|Engerman|2009|p=}}

==== Low harvest ====
According to historian ], the grain yield for the Soviet Union preceding the famine was a low harvest of between 55 and 60 million tons,{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004|pp=xix–xxi}} likely in part caused by damp weather and low traction power,{{sfn|Wheatcroft|2018}} yet official statistics mistakenly reported a yield of 68.9 million tons.{{sfn| Marples|2002}} (Note that a single ton of grain is enough to feed three people for one year.){{sfn|Davies|Tauger|Wheatcroft|1995|p=643}} Historian Mark Tauger has suggested that drought and damp weather were causes of the low harvest.{{sfn|Tauger|2001|p=45}} Mark Tauger suggested that heavy rains would help the harvest while Stephen Wheatcroft suggested it would hurt it which Natalya Naumenko notes as a disagreement in scholarship.{{sfn|Naumenko|2021}} Another factor which reduced the harvest suggested by Tauger included endemic plant rust.{{sfn|Tauger|2001|p=39}} However, in regard to plant disease Stephen Wheatcroft notes that the Soviet extension of sown area combined with lack of crop rotation may have exacerbated the problem,{{efn|name=Davies 2004, p. 437}} which Tauger also acknowledges in regard to the latter.<ref name="TaugerQianCritique" />

==== Collectivization, procurements, and the export of grain ====
{{see also|Collectivization in the Soviet Union|Five-year plans of the Soviet Union#First plan, 1928–1932|Causes of the Holodomor#Consequence of collectivization}}
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Due to factional struggles with ] wing of the party, peasant resistance to the ] under ], and the need for industrialization, ] declared a need to extract a "tribute" or "tax" from the peasantry.<ref name="collectivizationstruggle">{{cite book |last1=Viola |first1=Lynne |title=The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe:Comparison and Entanglements |date=2014 |publisher=] |isbn=978-963-386-048-9 |chapter=Collectivization in the Soviet Union: Specificities and Modalities |pages=49–69}}</ref> This idea was supported by most of the party in the 1920s.<ref name="collectivizationstruggle" /> The tribute collected by the party took on the form of a virtual war against the peasantry that would lead to its ] and the relegating of the countryside to essentially a ] homogenized to the urban culture of the Soviet elite.<ref name="collectivizationstruggle" /> ], however, opposed the policy of forced collectivisation under Stalin and would have favoured a ], gradual approach towards ]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beilharz |first1=Peter |title=Trotsky, Trotskyism and the Transition to Socialism |date=19 November 2019 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-70651-2 |pages=1–206 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lfe-DwAAQBAJ&dq=trotsky+widely+acknowledged+collectivisation&pg=PT196 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Rubenstein |first1=Joshua |title=Leon Trotsky : a revolutionary's life |date=2011 |location=New Haven |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-300-13724-8 |page=161 |url=https://archive.org/details/leontrotskyrevol0000rube/page/160/mode/2up?q=forced+collectivization}}</ref> with greater tolerance for the rights of Soviet Ukrainians.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Deutscher |first1=Isaac |author1-link=Isaac Deutscher |title=The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky |date=5 January 2015 |publisher=] |isbn=978-1-78168-721-5 |page=637 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YGznDwAAQBAJ&q=isaac+deutscher+trotsky |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Leon |last=Trotsky |author-link=Leon Trotsky |title=Problem of the Ukraine |date=April 1939 |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/04/ukraine.html |via=]}}</ref> This campaign of "colonizing" the peasantry had its roots both in old ] and modern ] of the ] yet with key differences to the latter such as Soviet repression reflecting more the weakness of said state rather than its strength.<ref name="collectivizationstruggle" />

In this vein by the summer of 1930, the government instituted a program of food requisitioning, ostensibly to increase grain exports. According to Natalya Naumenko, ] and lack of favored industries were primary contributors to famine mortality (52% of excess deaths), and some evidence shows there was discrimination against ethnic Ukrainians and Germans. In Ukraine ] was enforced, entailing extreme crisis and contributing to the famine. In 1929–1930, peasants were induced to transfer land and livestock to state-owned farms, on which they would work as day-labourers for payment in kind.{{sfn|Reid|2017}}

Food exports continued during the famine, albeit at a reduced rate.{{sfn|Applebaum|2017|pp=189–220; 221ff}} In regard to exports, ] states that the 1932–1933 grain exports amounted to 1.8 million tonnes, which would have been enough to feed 5 million people for one year.{{sfn|Ellman|2007}} The collectivization and high procurement quota explanation for the famine is somewhat called into question by the fact that the oblasts of Ukraine with the highest losses were ] and ], which produced far lower amounts of grain than other sections of the country.{{sfn|Selden|1982}}{{sfn|Chamberlin|1933}} Historian ] lists four problems Soviet authorities ignored during collectivization that would hinder the advancement of agricultural technology and ultimately contributed to the famine:{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004|pp=436–441}}

* "Over-extension of the sown area" — Crops yields were reduced and likely some plant disease caused by the planting of future harvests across a wider area of land without rejuvenating soil leading to the reduction of fallow land.
* "Decline in draught power" — the over extraction of grain lead to the loss of food for farm animals, which in turn reduced the effectiveness of agricultural operations.
* "Quality of cultivation" — the planting and extracting of the harvest, along with ploughing was done in a poor manner due to inexperienced and demoralized workers and the aforementioned lack of draught power.
* "The poor weather" — drought and other poor weather conditions were largely ignored by Soviet authorities who gambled on good weather and believed agricultural difficulties would be overcome.

Mark Tauger notes that Soviet and Western specialist at the time noted draught power shortages and lack of crop rotation contributed to intense weed infestations,<ref name="TaugerQianCritique" /> with these both being also factors Stephen Wheatcroft lists as contributing to the famine. Natalya Naumenko calculated that reduced agriculture production in "collectivized" collective farms is responsible for up to 52% of Holodomor ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Misplaced Pages Library |url=https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/ |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org |language=en}}</ref>

====Discrimination and persecution of Ukrainians ====
{{see also|Causes of the Holodomor#Soviet state policies that contributed to the Holodomor|Russification of Ukraine#Mid-1920s to early 1930s}}
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It has been proposed that the Soviet leadership used the human-made famine to attack ], and thus it could fall under the legal definition of genocide.{{sfn|Margolis|2003}}{{sfn|Kulchytsky2007- Evidential Gaps}}{{sfn|Finn|2008}}{{sfn| Marples|2005}}{{sfn|Bilinsky|1999}}{{sfn|Kulchytsky|2006}} For example, special and particularly lethal policies were adopted in and largely limited to Soviet Ukraine at the end of 1932 and 1933. According to ], "each of them may seem like an ] administrative measure, and each of them was certainly presented as such at the time, and yet each had to kill."{{efn|name=note-anodyne}}{{sfn|Snyder|2010|pp=42–46}} Other sources discuss the famine in relation to a project of imperialism or colonialism of Ukraine by the Soviet state.<ref name="colon1">{{cite journal |last1=Irvin-Erickson |first1=Douglas |title=Raphaël Lemkin, Genocide, Colonialism, Famine, and Ukraine |journal=Empire, Colonialism, and Famine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |date=12 May 2021 |volume=8 |pages=193–215 |doi=10.21226/ewjus645 |s2cid=235586856 |url=https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ewjus/1900-v1-n1-ewjus06029/1077127ar/abstract/ |access-date=23 October 2023 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="colon2">{{cite journal |last1=Hechter |first1=Michael |title=Internal Colonialism, Alien Rule, and Famine in Ireland and Ukraine |journal=Empire, Colonialism, and Famine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |date=12 May 2021 |volume=8 |pages=145–157 |doi=10.21226/ewjus642 |s2cid=235579661 |url=https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ewjus/1900-v1-n1-ewjus06029/1077124ar/abstract/ |access-date=23 October 2023 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="colon3">{{cite journal |last1=Hrynevych |first1=Liudmyla |title=Stalin's Faminogenic Policies in Ukraine: The Imperial Discourse |journal=Empire, Colonialism, and Famine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |date=12 May 2021 |volume=8 |pages=99–143 |doi=10.21226/ewjus641 |s2cid=235570495 |url=https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ewjus/1900-v1-n1-ewjus06029/1077123ar/abstract/ |access-date=23 October 2023 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Klid |first1=Bohdan |title=Empire-Building, Imperial Policies, and Famine in Occupied Territories and Colonies |journal=Empire, Colonialism, and Famine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |date=12 May 2021 |volume=8 |pages=11–32 |doi=10.21226/ewjus634 |s2cid=235578437 |url=https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ewjus/1900-v1-n1-ewjus06029/1077119ar/abstract/ |access-date=23 October 2023 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

] with the areas of most disastrous famine shaded black]]
According to a ] paper published in 2021 by Andrei Markevich, Natalya Naumenko, and Nancy Qian, regions with higher Ukrainian population shares were struck harder with centrally planned policies corresponding to famine such as increased procurement rate,{{sfn|Qian|2021}} and Ukrainian populated areas were given lower numbers of tractors which the paper argues demonstrates that ethnic discrimination across the board was centrally planned, ultimately concluding that 92% of famine deaths in Ukraine alone along with 77% of famine deaths in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus combined can be explained by systematic bias against Ukrainians.{{sfn|Markevich |Naumenko |Qian|2021}}

Mark Tauger criticized Natalya Naumenko's work as being based on: "major historical inaccuracies and falsehoods, omissions of essential evidence contained in her sources or easily available, and substantial misunderstandings of certain key topics".<ref name="TaugerQianCritique">{{cite journal |last1=Tauger |first1=Mark B. |title=The Environmental Economy of the Soviet Famine in Ukraine in 1933: A Critique of Several Papers by Natalya Naumenko |journal=Econ Journal Watch |url=https://econjwatch.org/File+download/1286/TaugerSept2023.pdf?mimetype=pdf |access-date=16 October 2023 |archive-date=18 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018075413/https://econjwatch.org/File+download/1286/TaugerSept2023.pdf?mimetype=pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> For example, Naumenko ignored Tauger's findings of 8.94 million tons of the harvest that had been lost to crop "rust and smut",<ref name="TaugerQianCritique" /> four reductions in grain procurement to Ukraine including a 39.5 million puds reduction in grain procurements ordered by Stalin,<ref name="TaugerQianCritique" /> and that from Tauger's findings which are contrary to Naumenko's paper's claims the "per-capita grain procurements in Ukraine were less, often significantly less, than the per-capita procurements from the five other main grain-producing regions in the USSR in 1932".<ref name="TaugerQianCritique" />

Other scholars argue that in other years preceding the famine this was not the case. For example, Stanislav Kulchytsky claims Ukraine produced more grain in 1930 than the ], ] and ] and ] regions all together, which had never been done before, and on average gave 4.7 quintals of grain from every sown hectare to the state{{emdash}}a record-breaking index of marketability{{emdash}}but was unable to fulfill the grain quota for 1930 until May 1931. Ukraine produced a similar amount of grain in 1931; however, by the late spring of 1932 "many districts were left with no reserves of produce or fodder at all".<ref name="Kulchytskystalinslave" /> Despite this, according to statistics gathered by Nataliia Levchuk, Ukraine and North Caucasus Krai delivered almost 100% of their grain procurement in 1931 versus 67% in two Russian Oblasts during the same period versus 1932 where three Russian regions delivered almost all of their procurements and Ukraine and North Caucasus did not.{{sfn|Wolowyna|2021}} This can partially be explained by Ukrainian regions losing a third of their harvests and Russian regions losing by comparison only 15% of their harvest.{{sfn|Wolowyna|2021}}

Ultimately, Tauger states: "if the regime had not taken even that smaller amount grain from Ukrainian villages, the famine could have been greatly reduced or even eliminated" however (in his words) "if the regime had left that grain in Ukraine, then other parts of the USSR would have been even more deprived of food than they were, including Ukrainian cities and industrial sites, and the overall effect would still have been a major famine, even worse in "non-Ukrainian" regions."<ref name="TaugerQianCritique" /> In fact in contrast to Naumenko's paper's claims the higher Ukrainian collectivization rates in Tauger's opinion actually indicate a pro-Ukrainian bias in Soviet policies rather than an anti-Ukrainian one: " did not see collectivization as "discrimination" against Ukrainians; they saw it as a reflection of—in the leaders' view—Ukraine's relatively more advanced farming skills that made Ukraine better prepared for collectivization (Davies 1980a, 166, 187–188; Tauger 2006a)."<ref name="TaugerQianCritique" />

Naumenko responded to some of Tauger's criticisms in another paper.<ref name="naumenkoresponse">{{cite journal |last1=Naumenko |first1=Natalya |title=Response to Professor Tauger's Comments |journal=Econ Journal Watch |date=September 2023 |page=313}}</ref> Naumenko criticizes Tauger's view of the efficacy of collective farms arguing Tauger's view goes against the consensus,<ref name="naumenkoresponse" /> she also states that the tenfold difference in death toll between the 1932-1933 Soviet famine and the ] can only be explained by government policies,<ref name="naumenkoresponse" /> and that the infestations of pests and plant disease suggested by Tauger as a cause of the famine must also correspond such infestations to rates of collectivization due to deaths by area corresponding to this<ref name="naumenkoresponse" /> due Naumenko's findings that: "on average, if you compare two regions with similar pre-famine characteristics, one with zero collectivization rate and another with a 100 percent collectivization rate, the more collectivized region's 1933 mortality rate increases by 58 per thousand relative to its 1927–1928 mortality rate".<ref name="naumenkoresponse" /> Naumenko believes the disagreement between her and Tauger is due to a "gulf in training and methods between quantitative fields like political science and economics and qualitative fields like history" noting that Tauger makes no comments on one of her paper's results section.<ref name="naumenkoresponse" />

Tauger made a counter-reply to this reply by Naumenko.<ref name="taugerresponseresponse">Counter-Reply to Naumenko on the Soviet Famine in Ukraine in 1933 Mark B. Tauger EJW Econ Journal Watch March 2024</ref> Tauger argues in his counter reply that Naumenko's attempt to correspond collectivization rates to famine mortality fails because "there was no single level of collectivization anywhere in the USSR in 1930, especially in the Ukrainian Republic" and that "since collectivization changed significantly by 1932–1933, any connection between 1930 and 1933 omits those changes and is therefore invalid".<ref name="taugerresponseresponse" /> Tauger also criticizes Naumenko's ignoring of statistics Tauger's presented where "in her reply she completely ignored the quantitative data presented in article" in which she against the evidence "denied that any famines took place in the later 1920s".<ref name="taugerresponseresponse" /> To counter Naumenko's claim that collectivization explains the famine Tauger argues ( in his words) how agro-environmental disasters better explain the regional discrepancies: " calculations again omit any consideration of the agro-environmental disasters that harmed farm production in 1932. In her appendices, Table C3, she does the same calculation with collectivization data from 1932, which she argues shows a closer correlation between collectivization and famine mortality (Naumenko 2021b, 33). Yet, as I showed, those agroenvironmental disasters were much worse in the regions with higher collectivization—especially Ukraine, the North Caucasus, and the Volga River basin (and also in Kazakhstan)—than elsewhere in the USSR. As I documented in my article and other publications, these were regions that had a history of environmental disasters that caused crop failures and famines repeatedly in Russian history."<ref name="taugerresponseresponse" /> Tauger notes: " assumption that collectivization subjected peasants to higher procurements, but in 1932 in Ukraine this was clearly not the case" as "grain procurements both total and per-capita were much lower in Ukraine than anywhere else in the USSR in 1932".<ref name="taugerresponseresponse" />

==== Peasant resistance ====
{{Holodomor}}{{genocide}}
{{history of Ukraine}}
], including the Ukrainian SSR, was not popular among the peasantry, and forced collectivisation led to numerous ]. The ] recorded 932 disturbances in Ukraine, 173 in the North Caucasus, and only 43 in the Central Black Earth Oblast (out of 1,630 total). Reports two years prior recorded over 4,000 unrests in Ukraine, while in other agricultural regions - Central Black Earth, Middle Volga, Lower Volga, and North Caucasus - the numbers were sightly above 1,000. OGPU's summaries also cited public proclamations of Ukrainian insurgents to restore the ], while reports by the Ukrainian officials included information about the declining popularity and authority of the party among peasants.<ref name="Kulchytskystalinslave">{{harvnb|Kulchytsky|2017}}; {{harvnb|Kulchytsky|2020}}; {{harvnb|Kulchytsky|2008}}</ref> Oleh Wolowyna comments that peasant resistance and the ensuing repression of said resistance was a critical factor for the famine in Ukraine and parts of Russia populated by national minorities like Germans and Ukrainians allegedly tainted by "fascism and bourgeois nationalism" according to Soviet authorities.{{sfn|Wolowyna|2021}}

=== Regional variation ===
The collectivization and high procurement quota explanation for the famine is called into question by the fact that the oblasts of Ukraine with the highest losses were ] and ], which produced far lower amounts of grain than other sections of the country.{{sfn|Wolowyna|2021}} A potential explanation for this was that Kharkiv and Kyiv fulfilled and over fulfilled their grain procurements in 1930 which led to ]s in these oblasts having their procurement quotas doubled in 1931 compared to the national average increase in procurement rate of 9%. While Kharkiv and Kyiv had their quotas increased, the Odesa oblast and some raions of Dnipropetrovsk oblast had their procurement quotas decreased.{{sfn|Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute|2022}}

According to Nataliia Levchuk of the Ptoukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies, "the distribution of the largely increased 1931 grain quotas in Kharkiv and Kyiv oblasts by raion was very uneven and unjustified because it was done disproportionally to the percentage of wheat sown area and their potential grain capacity."{{sfn|Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute|2022}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Famine losses by region{{sfn|Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute|2018}}
|-
! Oblast !! Total Deaths (1932–1934 in thousands) !! Deaths per 1000 (1932) !! Deaths per 1000 (1933) !! Deaths per 1000 (1934)
|-
| ] || 1110.8 || 13.7 || 178.7 || 7
|-
| ] || 1037.6 || 7.8 || 178.9 || 4.2
|-
| ] || 545.5 || 5.9 || 114.6 || 5.2
|-
| ] || 368.4 || 5.4 || 91.6 || 4.7
|-
| ] || 326.9 || 6.1 || 98.8 || 2.4
|-
| ] || 254.2 || 6 || 75.7 || 11.9
|-
| ] || 230.8 || 7 || 41.1 || 6.4
|- |-
| ] || 68.3 || 9.6 || 102.4 || 8.1
|} |}


=== Repressive policies ===
On ], ], the Soviet government passed a decree that would impose the death penalty in the USSR for any theft of public property {{ref|Potocki-320}} {{ref|Serczyk-311}} {{ref|Gregorovich}}. The scope of this law seemed wide, and included even the smallest appropriation of grain by peasants for personal use. However, it was not very firmly enforced and was substantially revised.
]es and their punishment in the ], ], Ukraine.]]
Several repressive policies were implemented in Ukraine immediately preceding, during, and proceeding the famine, including but not limited to cultural-religious persecution the ], ], ], and harsh grain requisitions.


==== Preceding the famine ====
Politburo protocols reveal that secret decisions had later modified the original decree. On September 16, 1932, the Politburo approved a measure that specificially exempted small-scale theft of socialist property from the death penalty. It declared that "organizations and groupings destroying state, social, and cooperate property in an organized way by fires, explosions and mass destruction of property shall be sentenced to execution without weakening", and listed a number of cases in which "kulaks, former traders and other socially-alien persons" should suffer the death penalty. So-called "kulaks", whether members of a kolkhoz or not, who "organize or take part in the theft of kolkhos property and grain", should also be sentenced "to the death penalty without weakening." But "working individual peasants and collective farmers" who stole kolkhoz property and grain should be sentenced to ten years; the death penalty should be imposed only for "systematic theft of grain, sugar beet, animals, etc" <ref>Stephen Wheatcroft and R.W Davies, The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp.167-168, 198-203</ref>
{{see also|Union for the Freedom of Ukraine process}}
Coiner of the term ], ] considered the repression of the Orthodox Church to be a prong of ] against Ukrainians when seen in correlation to the Holodomor famine.{{sfn|Serbyn|2015}} Collectivization did not just entail the acquisition of land from farmers but also the closing of churches, burning of icons, and the arrests of priests.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1994|p=6}} Associating the church with the tsarist regime,{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1994|p=33}} the Soviet state continued to undermine the church through expropriations and repression.{{sfn|Viola|1999}} They cut off state financial support to the church and secularized church schools.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1994|p=33}}


By early 1930 75% of the Autocephalist ] in Ukraine were persecuted by Soviet authorities.{{sfn|Bociurkiw|1982}} The GPU instigated a show trial which denounced the Orthodox Church in Ukraine as a "nationalist, political, counter-revolutionary organization" and instigated a staged "self-dissolution."{{sfn|Bociurkiw|1982}} However the Church was later allowed to reorganize in December 1930 under a pro-Soviet cosmopolitan leader of ] yet purges of the Church reignited during the ].{{sfn |Bociurkiw|1982}} Changes in cultural politics also occurred.
When it became clear that the 1932 grain deliveries were not going to meet the expectations of the government, the decreased agricultural output was blamed on the "]s", "nationalists", and "]vites". According to a report of the head of the Supreme Court, by January, 15, 1933 as many as 103,000 people had been sentenced under the provisions of the August 7 decree. Of the 79,000 whose sentences were known to the Supreme Court, 4,880 had been sentenced to death, 26,086 to ten years' imprisonment and 48,094 to other sentences. Those sentenced to death were categorised primarily as kulaks; many of those sentenced to ten years were individual peasants who were not kulaks. <ref>Stephen Wheatcroft and R.W Davies, ''The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p.198. </ref>


First soviet ] in Ukraine in connection to the member of the ] has taken place as early as 1921.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Процес цк української партії соціалістів-революціонерів 1921 |trans-title=The trial of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries in 1921 |url=http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?&I21DBN=EIU&P21DBN=EIU&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=eiu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=TRN=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=Protses_TsK_1921 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240602095135/http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?&I21DBN=EIU&P21DBN=EIU&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=eiu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=TRN=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=Protses_TsK_1921 |archive-date=2 June 2024 |access-date=2 June 2024 |website=resource.history.org.ua}}</ref> Yet, the first show trial related to Ukraine in the period of the ] was a trial in 1928 in ], known as ].<ref>{{Cite web |author=Ukrainian Institute of National Memory |author-link=Ukrainian Institute of National Memory |script-title=uk:1928 - почався суд по "шахтинській справі" |title=1928 - pochavsya sud po "shakhtynsʹkiy spravi" |trans-title=1928 - the trial of the "Shakhtyn case" began |url=https://uinp.gov.ua/istorychnyy-kalendar/traven/18/1928-pochavsya-sud-po-shahtynskiy-spravi |access-date=2 June 2024 |website=УІНП |language=uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306060857/https://uinp.gov.ua/istorychnyy-kalendar/traven/18/1928-pochavsya-sud-po-shahtynskiy-spravi |archive-date=6 March 2022}}</ref> Prior to this in October 1925 Shakhty ] (previously part of ]) was transferred from ] to ]<ref>{{Cite web |script-title=ru:Постановление Президиума ЦИК СССР от 16.10.1925 «Об урегулировании границ Украинской Социалистической Советской Республики с Российской Социалистической Федеративной Советской Республикой и Белорусской Социалистической Советской Республикой». |title=Postanovleniye Prezidiuma TSIK SSSR ot 16.10.1925 «Ob uregulirovanii granits Ukrainskoy Sotsialisticheskoy Sovetskoy Respubliki s Rossiyskoy Sotsialisticheskoy Federativnoy Sovetskoy Respublikoy i Belorusskoy Sotsialisticheskoy Sovetskoy Respublikoy». |language=ru |trans-title=Resolution of the Presidium of the CEC of the USSR of 16.10.1925 "On the settlement of the borders of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic with the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic and the Byelorussian Socialist Soviet Republic". |url=https://www.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=ESU;n=16497#OR9hWEUG66RY930K1 |access-date=2 June 2024}}</ref> and thus the trial was held in Moscow.Yet, one of the central ones, was the ] in which 45 intellectuals, higher education professors, writers, a theologian and a priest were publicly prosecuted in ], then capital of Soviet Ukraine. Fifteen of the accused were executed, and 248 with links to the defendants were sent to the camps. ] was also considered a "sub-division" of the "Union for Freedom of Ukraine" and thus its members were also trialed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 April 2017 |script-title=uk:"Монстр-процес": харківська справа "Спілки Визволення України" 1930 р. у громадсько-політичній думці Галичини |title="Monstr-protses": kharkivsʹka sprava "Spilky Vyzvolennya Ukrayiny" 1930 r. u hromadsʹko-politychniy dumtsi Halychyny |trans-title=The "Monster Trial": The Kharkiv Case of the "Union for the Liberation of Ukraine" in 1930 in the Public and Political Thought of Galicia |url=https://uamoderna.com/md/kravets-kharkiv-svu-1930/ |access-date=2 June 2024 |website=Україна Модерна |language=uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240602141027/https://uamoderna.com/md/kravets-kharkiv-svu-1930/ |archive-date=2 June 2024}}</ref> Other notable Ukrainian processes included "People's Revolutionary Socialist Party" trial in 1930 (it was claimed that this was an illegal armed insurgent organisation created in December 1929, which existed in ] and ]) <ref>{{Cite web |last=Shapoval |first=Yurii |script-title=uk:Народної революційної соціалістичної партії Справа |title=Narodnoyi revolyutsiynoyi sotsialistychnoyi partiyi Sprava |trans-title=Case of "People's Revolutionary Socialist Party" |url=https://esu.com.ua/article-71165 |access-date=2 June 2024 |website=Енциклопедія Сучасної України |language=uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240602075134/https://esu.com.ua/article-71165 |archive-date=2 June 2024}}</ref> and "Ukrainian National Center" trial in 1931 (another non-existent counter-revolutionary organisation).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Prystajko |first1=Volodymyr I. |title=Mychajlo Hruševs'kyj: sprava "UNC" i ostanni roky (1931-1934) = Paralleltit. Mykhailo Hrushevsky |last2=Šapoval |first2=Jurij I. |date=1999 |publisher=Krytyka |isbn=978-966-7679-08-8 |location=Kyïv}}</ref> In ] at that time some other ]s such as Industrial Party Trial (1930) and the ] were held. The total number is not known,{{sfn|Wheatcroft|2001}}{{sfn|Leonavičius|Ozolinčiūtė|2019}} but tens of thousands{{efn|name=Werth, 2008.}} of people are estimated to have been arrested, exiled, and/or executed during and after the trial including 30,000{{sfn|Malko|2021|p=191}} intellectuals, writers, teachers, and scientists.
A special commission headed by ] was sent to Ukraine in order to execute the grain contingent.{{ref|Rajca-77}} On ], a secret decree urged Bolshevik police and repression forces to increase their "effectiveness". Molotov also ordered that if no grain remained in Ukrainian villages, all beets, potatoes, vegetables and any other food were to be confiscated.


==== During the famine ====
On December 6, a new regulation was issued that imposed the following sanctions on Ukrainian villages: ban on supply of any goods or food to the villages, requisition of any food or grain found on site, ban of any trade, and, lastly, the confiscation of all financial resources.{{ref|Potocki-321}} Measures were undertaken to persecute upon the withholding or bargaining of grain. This was done frequently with the aid of 'shock brigades', which raided farms to collect grain. This was done regardless of whether the peasants retained enough grain to feed themselves, or whether they had enough seed left to plant the next harvest. These, combined with the ban on travel and armed quarantines by the ] troops along the borders of Ukraine, turned the Ukrainian countryside into a gigantic death camp.
The "Decree About the Protection of Socialist Property", nicknamed by the farmers the ], was enacted on 7 August 1932. The purpose of the law was to protect the property of the ] collective farms. It was nicknamed the Law of Spikelets because it allowed people to be prosecuted for ] leftover grain from the fields. There were more than 200,000 people sentenced under this law.{{sfn|Ellman|2007}}


] wrote a letter to ] on 11 September 1932, shortly before Kaganovich and ] were appointed heads of special commissions to oversee the grain procurements in Ukraine and Kuban (a region populated primarily by ethnic Ukrainians at the time), in which Stalin urged Kaganovich to force Ukraine into absolute compliance:
The famine mostly affected the rural population. In comparison to the previous ] in the ] during 1921–22, which was caused by ], and the next one in ], the famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine was caused not by ] breakdown, or ], but by deliberate political and administrative decisions (e.g., see ).


{{Blockquote|The main thing is now Ukraine. Matters in Ukraine are now extremely bad. Bad from the standpoint of the Party line. They say that there are two oblasts of Ukraine (Kyiv and Dnipropetrovs'k, it seems) where almost 50 raikomy have come out against the plan of grain procurements, considering them unrealistic. In other ]y, they confirm, the matter is no better. What does this look like? This is no party, but a parliament, a caricature of a parliament. Instead of directing the districts, ] is always waffling between the directives of the ] and the demands of the district Party committees and waffled to the end. Lenin was right, when he said that a person who lacks the courage at the necessary moment to go against the current cannot be a real Bolshevik leader. Bad from the standpoint of the Soviet line. ] is no leader. Bad from the standpoint of the ]. ] lacks the energy to direct the struggle with the counterrevolution in such a big and unique republic as Ukraine. If we do not now correct the situation in Ukraine, we could lose Ukraine. Consider that ] is not daydreaming, and his agents in Ukraine are much stronger than Redens or Kosior imagine. Also consider that within the Ukrainian Communist Party (500,000 members, ha, ha) there are not a few (yes, not a few!) rotten elements that are conscious or unconscious ] adherents and in the final analysis agents of Pilsudski. If the situation gets any worse, these elements won't hesitate to open a front within (and outside) the Party, against the Party. Worst of all, the Ukrainian leadership doesn't see these dangers.... Set yourself the task of turning Ukraine in the shortest possible time into a fortress of the USSR, into the most inalienable republic. Don't worry about money for this purpose.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/James_Mace/Is_the_Ukrainian_Genocide_a_Myth_anhl.pdf?PHPSESSID=ho2l7bb4c2gmor9b9j4qhetpi7 |title=Is the Ukrainian Genocide a Myth? |first=James E. |last=Mace |author-link=James E. Mace |journal=Canadian-American Slavic Studies |volume=376 |number=3 |date=Fall 2003 |pages=45–52 |doi=10.1163/221023903X00378 |access-date=25 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325182725/https://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/James_Mace/Is_the_Ukrainian_Genocide_a_Myth_anhl.pdf?PHPSESSID=ho2l7bb4c2gmor9b9j4qhetpi7 |archive-date=25 March 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>}}
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The blacklist system was formalized in 1932 by the 20 November decree "The Struggle against Kurkul Influence in Collective Farms";{{sfn|Andriewsky|2015}} blacklisting, synonymous with a board of infamy, was one of the elements of agitation-propaganda in the ], and especially Ukraine and the ethnically Ukrainian ] region in the 1930s. A blacklisted collective farm, village, or ] (district) had its monetary loans and grain advances called in, stores closed, grain supplies, livestock, and food confiscated as a penalty, and was cut off from trade. Its Communist Party and collective farm committees were purged and subject to arrest, and their territory was forcibly cordoned off by the ] secret police.{{sfn|Andriewsky|2015}}
The result was disastrous. Within a few months, the Ukrainian countryside, one of the most fertile agricultural regions in the world, was the scene of a general famine. The Soviet government denied initial reports of the famine, and prevented foreign journalists from traveling in the region. Scholars who have conducted research in declassified archives have reported{{ref|DaviesWheatcroft-424}} "the Politburo and regional Party committees insisted that immediate and decisive action be taken in response to the famine such that 'conscientious farmers' not suffer, while district Party committees were instructed to supply every child with milk and decreed that those who failed to mobilize resources to feed the hungry or denied hospitalization to famine victims be prosecuted."


Although nominally targeting collective farms failing to meet grain quotas and independent farmers with outstanding tax-in-kind, in practice the punishment was applied to all residents of affected villages and raions, including teachers, tradespeople, and children.{{sfn|Andriewsky|2015}} In the end 37 out of 392 districts{{sfn|Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute|2013}} along with at least 400 collective farms where put on the "black board" in Ukraine, more than half of the blacklisted farms being in ] alone.{{sfn|Papakin|2010}} Every single raion in Dnipropetrovsk had at least one blacklisted village, and in Vinnytsia oblast five entire raions were blacklisted.{{sfn|Andriewsky|2015}} This oblast is situated right in the middle of traditional lands of the ]. Cossack villages were also blacklisted in the Volga and Kuban regions of Russia.{{sfn|Andriewsky|2015}} Some blacklisted areas{{sfn|Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute|2013}} in ] could have death rates exceeding 40%{{sfn|Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute|2018}} while in other areas such as ] blacklisting had no particular effect on mortality.{{sfn|Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute|2018}}
At the same time, however, the Soviet regime provided extensive aid to famine-stricken regions, substantially limiting the impact of the famine. Between February and July 1933 at least thirty-five Politburo decisions and Sovnarkom decrees authorised issue of a total of only '''320,000''' tons of grain for food for '''30 millions''' persons. <ref>Stephen Wheatcroft and R.W Davies, ''The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933'', Palgrave Macmillian, pg.214</ref>


The ] (identity cards) was introduced on 27 December 1932 to deal with the exodus of peasants from the countryside. Individuals not having such a document could not leave their homes on pain of administrative penalties, such as internment in ]s (]). On 22 January 1933, ] signed a secret decree restricting travel by peasants after requests for bread began in the Kuban and Ukraine. Soviet authorities blamed the exodus of peasants during the famine on anti-Soviet elements, saying that "like the outflow from Ukraine last year, was organized by the enemies of Soviet power."{{efn|name=Martin 2001, pp. 306-307.}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pyrih |first=Ruslan I͡a. |url=http://history.org.ua/LiberUA/978-966-518-419-5/978-966-518-419-5.pdf |script-title=uk:1932–1933 років в Ukraïni: Документи і матеріали |title=1932–1933 rokiv v Ukraïni: Dokumenty i materialy |publisher=] |year=2007 |isbn=978-966-518-419-5 |editor-last= |editor-first= |location=Kyiv |pages=609–10 |trans-title=Holodomor of 1932–33 in Ukraine: Documents and Materials |access-date=2 October 2023 |archive-date=1 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101194242/http://history.org.ua/LiberUA/978-966-518-419-5/978-966-518-419-5.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
Further evidence shows measures taken by the Soviet government to reduce famine. On April 6, 1933, Sholokhov, who lived in Vesenskii district, wrote at length to Stalin describing the famine conditions and urging him to provide grain. Stalin received the letter on April 15, and on April 16 the Politburo granted 700 tons of grain to the district. Stalin sent a telegram to Sholokhov "We will do everything required. Inform sieze of necessary help. State a figure." Sholkhov replied on the same day, and on April 22, the day on which Stalin received the second letter, Stalin scolded him, "You should have sent answer not by letter but by telegram. Time was wasted" <ref> Wheatcroft and Davies, p. 217</ref>


There was a wave of migration due to starvation and authorities responded by introducing a requirement that passports be used to go between republics and banning travel by rail.{{sfn|Tauger|1991}} During March 1933 ] reported that 219,460 people were either intercepted and escorted back or arrested at its checkpoints meant to prevent movement of peasants between districts.{{sfn|Werth|1999|p=164}} It has been estimated that there were some 150,000 excess deaths as a result of this policy, and one historian asserts that these deaths constitute a ].{{sfn|Ellman|2007}} In contrast, historian ] argues that the sealing of the Ukrainian borders caused by the internal passport system was in order to prevent the spread of famine-related diseases.{{sfn|Kotkin|2017}}
Grain exports during 1932-1933 continued, however, even though on a significantly lower level than in previous years. In 1930/31 there had been 5,832 thousand tons of grains exported. In 1931/32, grain exports declined to 4,786 thousand tons. In 1932/1933, grain exports were just 1,607 thousand tons and in 1933/34, this further declined to 1,441 thousand tons. <ref>Stephen Wheatcroft and R.W Davies, ''The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p.471</ref>


]
Poor weather played a substantial role in the famine according some ] scholars. <ref>Wheatcroft and Daveis</ref> Russia and parts of Ukraine suffered from fairly regular droughts, which significantly reduced crop yields. In 1925-29, the weather was favourable; the only break in the years of fine weather came in 1927. Then weather in 1930 was excellent. In 1931, however, this good luck came to an end. The spring weather was much colder than usual; and June was warmer, and July much hotter than usual. The cold spring and hot July were a deadly combination. The cold spring delayed the sowing and hence the whole development of grain. The grain reached its vulnerable flowering stage later than normal, coinciding with the hot July weather. And from June the southeast suffered what what is known as as a sukhovei (literally, dry wind). In May-July, the normal weather pattern in the Volga and Ukraine was that the warm, dry, southeasterly winds from Kazakhstan gave way to colder and wetter winds from the northwest. But about once in every ten or twelve years the southeasterlies predominated throughout these months, the winds became scorching, no rain fell, and the earth became parched. At these times, grain yields fell significantly and there was a risk of famine if reserve stocks of grain were not available. These dry winds brought famine in 1891 and 1921. In 1906, massive government assistance largely alleviated the problem. The drought, which had begun in West Siberia in May, spread to the Volga regions in June and July. A huge defecit in rainfall was accompanied by temperatures much higher than average in these regions as well as Ukraine. <ref>Wheatcroft and Daveis</ref>


Between January and mid-April 1933, a factor contributing to a surge of deaths within certain regions of Ukraine during the period was the relentless search for alleged hidden grain by the confiscation of all food stuffs from certain households, which Stalin implicitly approved of through a telegram he sent on 1 January 1933 to the Ukrainian government reminding Ukrainian farmers of the severe penalties for not surrendering grain they may be hiding.{{sfn|Wolowyna|2021}}
For 1931, the spring sowing was considerably delayed. Virtually no sowing took place in March and in April it was delayed by nearly three weeks. The delay in Ukraine and Lower Volga was caused primarily by the unusually cold weather. In other areas, excessive rain also added to the problems and made it difficult to catch up. A report from the Lower Volga noted: "After a short improvement another rainy spell has begun. Mass sowing in the southern districts of the region is taking place in a struggle with the weather. Literally every hour and every day have to be grabbed for sowing." The people's commissar for agriculture stated that the delay of two-three weeks had been caused by the "very difficult meteorological and climatic conditions of the spring". <ref>Wheatcroft and Daveis</ref>


On the other hand, considerable grain reserves were held back by the Soviet government. By 1 July 1933, around 1,141,000 tons of grain were kept in partially secret reserves which the government did not want to touch. Stephen Wheatcroft, Mark Tauger, and R.W. Davies conclude: "it seems certain that, if Stalin had risked lower levels of these reserves in spring and summer 1933, hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions – of lives could have been saved".{{sfn|Davies|Tauger|Wheatcroft|1995|pp=656–657}}
Natural calamities had descended on regions particularly the Central and Lower Volga in 1931. In August, the agricultural newspaper published numerous references to the exceptionally rainy weather which had delayed harvesting and damaged harvested grain which had not been stacked. It was later reported that in the Central Volga teh burning of the ripening grain by the hot drought had been followed during the weeks of harvesting by enough rain for three harvests. On the right bank of the Volga, large quantities of wet grain had been spoiled. There were reports of warm, dry weather had set in from Mid-May 1931 and that exceptionally high temperatures were recorded in many parts of Ukraine, North Caucuses, Lower Volga, and Kazakhstan. For the USSR as a whole they were higher than average. <ref>Wheatcroft and Daveis</ref>


In order to make up for unfulfilled grain procurement quotas in Ukraine, reserves of grain were confiscated from three sources including, according to Oleh Wolowyna, "(a) grain set side for seed for the next harvest; (b) a grain fund for emergencies; (c) grain issued to collective farmers for previously completed work, which had to be returned if the collective farm did not fulfill its quota."{{sfn|Wolowyna|2021}}
In Ukraine, the temperature was considerably lower during the whole of March 1932 than in the previous year. At the end of May and in early June temperatures were even higher than in 1931. Then there was a sudden change: high rainfall was experienced in most of the USSR, especially in the Kiev region. Temperatures were less severe than in 1931, but the combination of high temperatures in the initial flowering stage and great humidity during early flowering greatly increased the vulnerability of the crop. <ref> Wheatcroft and Daveis</ref>


==== Near the end of and after the famine ====
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In Ukraine, there was a widespread purge of Communist party officials at all levels. According to Oleh Wolowyna, 390 "anti-Soviet, counter-revolutionary insurgent and chauvinist" groups were eliminated resulting in 37,797 arrests, that led to 719 executions, 8,003 people being sent to ] camps, and 2,728 being put into internal exile.{{sfn|Wolowyna|2021}} 120,000 individuals in Ukraine were reviewed in the first 10 months of 1933 in a top-to-bottom purge of the Communist party resulting in 23% being eliminated as perceived class hostile elements.{{sfn|Wolowyna|2021}} ] was set in charge of placing people at the head of Machine-Tractor Stations in Ukraine which were responsible for purging elements deemed to be class hostile.{{sfn|Wolowyna|2021}} The secretary of the Kharkiv Oblast referred to "bourgeois-nationalistic rabble" as "class enemies" even near the end of the famine.{{sfn|Kharkiv Oblast secretary |1933}} By the end of 1933, 60% of the heads of village councils and raion committees in Ukraine were replaced with an additional 40,000 lower-tier workers being purged.{{sfn|Wolowyna|2021}}
To further prevent the spread of information about the famine, travel from Ukraine and some Don regions - was ''especifically'' forbidden by directives of ] ] (signed by Molotov and Stalin) and of ] ] (joint directive ] ] and ]). The directives stated that the travels "for bread" from these areas were organized by enemies of the Soviet power with the purpose of agitation in northern areas of the USSR against kolkhozes. Therefore railway tickets were to be sold only by '']'' permits, and those who managed to travel northwards should be arrested. <ref> Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939., Ithaca. N.I., 2001, p. 306</ref>


] is a traditional Ukrainian musical instrument, whereas ]s were the carriers of traditional songs and folklore. One of the communist newspapers in 1930 already stated that "being in love with nationalist romance is not a communist thing" and in December 1933 during the All-Ukrainian Union of Art Workers, the ] and ] were declared class-enemy instruments,<ref>{{Cite web |title="Класово ворожа" бандура: пам'яті розстріляних кобзарів |trans-title=The "Class-Hostile" Bandura: In Memory of Executed Kobzars |url=https://umoloda.kyiv.ua/number/3248/196/118497/fb |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=umoloda.kyiv.ua |language=uk}}</ref> which lead to the beginning of the repressions against the musicians playing them.
==Estimation of the loss of life==


Despite the crisis, the Soviet government refused to ask for foreign aid for the famine and persistently denied the famine's existence.{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004|pp=441}} What aid was given was selectively distributed to preserve the collective farm system. Grain producing oblasts in Ukraine such as ] were given more aid at an earlier time than more severely affected regions like ] which produced less grain.{{sfn|Wolowyna|2021}} ] had quoted ] during the famine declaring: "]."{{sfn|Ellman|2007}}
While the course of the events as well as their underlying reasons are still a matter of debate, the fact that by the end of 1933, millions of people had died from factors relating to malnutrition in the USSR is undisputed. The ] long objected to the reports of famine.


This perspective is argued by ] to have influenced official policy during the famine, with those deemed to be idlers being disfavored in aid distribution as compared to those deemed "conscientiously working collective farmers".{{sfn|Ellman|2007}} In this vein, Olga Andriewsky states that Soviet archives indicate that the most productive workers were prioritized for receiving food aid.{{efn|name=Andriewsky 2015, p. 17}}
The Russin archives have shown that excess deaths in Ukraine numbered 1.54 million <ref>Wheatcroft and Davies</ref> In 1932-1933, there were a combined 1.2 million cases of typhus and 500 thousand cases of typhoid fever. Others, contrary to the declassified demographic reports, have put forth 2.5 million (Volodymyr Kubiyovych) and 4.8 million (Vasyl Hryshko). Modern calculation that use demographic data including those available from formerly closed Soviet archives narrow the losses to about 3.2 million or, allowing for the lack of the data precision, 3 to 3.5 million.<ref name=HowMany>Stanislav Kulchytsky, ''"How many of us perished in Holodomor in 1933"'', ], November 23-29, 2002. Available online and </ref><ref name=Reasons>Stalislav Kulchytsky, ''"Reasons of the 1933 famine in Ukraine. Through the pages of one almost forgotten book"'' ], August 16-22, 2003. Available online and .</ref><ref name=Reasons2>Stanislav Kulchytsky, ''"Reasons of the 1933 famine in Ukraine-2"'', ], October 4-10, 2003. Available online and </ref><ref name=Losses>Stalislav Kuchytsky, ''"Demographic lossed in Ukrainian in the twentieth century"'', ], October 2-8, 2004. Available online and .</ref> Of these 3 to 3.5 million "losses", 1.54 million were due to excess deaths
The following calculation is presented by Stanislav Kulchytsky.<ref name=HowMany/> The declassified Soviet statistics show a decrease of 538 thousand people in the population of Soviet Ukraine between 1926 census (28,925,976) and 1937 census (28,388,000). The number of births and deaths (in thousands) according to the declassified records is:


Food rationing in Ukraine was determined by city categories (where one lived, with capitals and industrial centers being given preferential distribution), occupational categories (with industrial and railroad workers being prioritized over blue collar workers and intelligentsia), status in the family unit (with employed persons being entitled to higher rations than dependents and the elderly), and type of workplace in relation to industrialization (with those who worked in industrial endeavors near steel mills being preferred in distribution over those who worked in rural areas or in food).{{sfn|Malko|2021|pp=152–153}} According to ], who visited Ukraine at that time, while the Soviet government insisted on him as well as other foreigners to sign an affidavit stating that "they had seen no forced labor in the Ukraine",<ref>{{Cite book |last=James E. Abbe |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.89358 |title=I Photograph Russia |date=1934 |pages=304}}</ref> "only the actual industrial workers had received enough to eat and even their families had suffered".<ref>{{Cite book |last=James E. Abbe |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.89358 |title=I Photograph Russia |date=1934 |pages=106}}</ref> Describing the coal mines he visited in Donetsk region, ] mentions: "The next day we went into the question of forced labor. Of course, the armed soldiers situated in the mine shafts, power houses and tipples had bayonets fastened to their rifles and revolvers strapped to their belts; but they were doubtless guarding the property — though the superintendent failed to tell us what they were guarding the mines against. Anyhow, the system of issuing and revoking food cards is far more sinister and effective than bayonets".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Abbe |first=James E. |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.89358 |title=I Photograph Russia |date=1934 |pages=314}}</ref>
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There was also migration in to Ukraine as a response to the famine: in response to the demographic collapse, the Soviet authorities ordered large-scale resettlements, with over 117,000 peasants from remote regions of the Soviet Union taking over the deserted farms.{{sfn|Kuśnierz|2013}}{{sfn|Kuśnierz|2018}} Areas depopulated by the famine were resettled by Russians in the ], Donetsk and ] oblasts, but not as much so in central Ukraine. In some areas where depopulation was due to migration rather than mortality, Ukrainians returned to their places of residence to find their homes occupied by Russians, leading to widespread fights between Ukrainian farmers and Russian settlers. Such clashes caused around one million Russian settlers to be returned home.{{sfn|Nalyvayko|Bulanenko|2016}}
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=== Torgsin system ===
Torsion networks appeared in 1931.They were selling goods for foreign currency or exchanging them for precious metals. Originally only exclusively for foreigners, but later soviet citizens were also allowed to exchange the goods. During Holodomor people brought family heritage - crosses, earrings, wedding rings to Torgsins and exchanged it for special stamps, for which they could obtain basic goods - mostly flour, cereals or sugar. Torgsins operated at highly speculative prices and were known for long queues. With that mechanism authorities were able to extort from the population whatever could have been hidden during the confiscations. Many families survived, in particular thanks to Torgsin.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The book "Gold - the state! Torgsin in Soviet Ukraine, 1931–1936» – Чернігівський історичний музей ім. VV. Tarnovsky |url=https://choim.org/%d0%ba%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%b3%d0%b0-%d0%b7%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%be%d1%82%d0%be-%d0%b4%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b6%d0%b0%d0%b2%d1%96-%d1%82%d0%be%d1%80%d0%b3%d1%81%d0%b8%d0%bd-%d1%83-%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b4/?lang=en |access-date=2024-05-19 |language=en}}</ref> Yet the network was also a cause of a psychological trauma,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=The Holodomor and Torgsin System. Totally Secret |url=https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/film/holodomor-ta-systema-torhsin-tsilkom-taiemno-2/ |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide |language=en}}</ref> since people had to give up on family valuables and relics that had not only material, but also spiritual value. During the Holodomor, the network of torgsins expanded considerably—by the end of 1933, there were already about 300 such shops in Soviet Ukraine.<ref name=":0" /> In 1933, the population brought 45 tons of pure gold to torsgins. The network existed until 1936 .

=== Cannibalism ===
Evidence of widespread ] was documented during the Holodomor:{{sfn|Margolis|2003}}{{sfn|Sokur|2008}}
<blockquote>Survival was a moral as well as a physical struggle. A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was "not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you." The good people died first. Those who refused to steal or to ] themselves died. Those who gave food to others died. Those who refused to eat ] died. Those who refused to kill their fellow man died. Parents who resisted cannibalism died before their children did.... At least 2,505 people were sentenced for cannibalism in the years 1932 and 1933 in Ukraine, though the actual number of cases was certainly much higher.{{sfn|Snyder|2010|pp=50–51}}</blockquote>

Most cases of cannibalism were "necrophagy, the consumption of corpses of people who had died of starvation". But the murder of children for food was common as well. Many survivors told of neighbors who had killed and eaten their own children. One woman, asked why she had done this, "answered that her children would not survive anyway, but this way she would". She was arrested by the police. The police also documented cases of children being kidnapped, killed, and eaten, and "stories of children being hunted down as food" circulated in many areas.{{sfn|Applebaum|2017|loc=chapter 11}} When nearly all grain and all kinds of animal meat had been exhausted, "a black market arose in human flesh" and it "may even have entered the official economy." The police kept a close eye on butcher shops and slaughterhouses, trying to prevent them from bringing human flesh into circulation.{{sfn|Snyder|2010|p=51}} The Italian consul, Sergio Gradenigo, nevertheless reported from Kharkiv that the "trade of human meat becomes more active."<ref>Quoted in {{harvnb|Applebaum|2017|loc=chapter 11}}.</ref>

In March 1933, the ] in ] collected "ten or more reports of cannibalism every day" but concluded that "in reality there are many more such incidents", most of which went unreported. Those found guilty of cannibalism were often "imprisoned, executed, or lynched". But while the authorities were well informed about the extent of cannibalism, they also tried to suppress this information from becoming widely known, the chief of the secret police warning "that written notes on the subject do not circulate among the officials where they might cause rumours".{{sfn|Applebaum|2017|loc=chapter 11}}
And the information secretly collected failed to spur the Soviet government into action. Various reports of the horrors of the famine, including the cannibalism, were sent to Moscow, where they were apparently shelved and ignored.{{sfn|Applebaum|2017|loc=chapter 11}}

=== Ukrainians in other republics ===
Ukrainians in other parts of the Soviet Union also experienced famine and repressive policies. Rural districts with Ukrainian populations in parts of the Soviet Union outside of Ukraine had higher mortality rates in Russia and Belarus than other districts, this discrepancy did not however apply to urban Ukrainians in these areas.{{sfn|Meier|2022}} This is sometimes viewed as being connected to the Holodomor in Ukraine.<ref>Naimark, Norman M. (2010). Stalin's Genocides. Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity. Vol. 12. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14784-0 p. 70</ref>

==== Kuban and the North Caucasus of Russia ====
In 1932–1933, the policies of forced collectivization of the Ukrainian population of the Soviet Union, which caused a devastating famine that greatly affected the Ukrainian population of the Kuban. The number of documented victims of famine in Kuban was at least 62,000. According to other historians, the real death toll is many times higher.{{sfn|Osadchenko|Rudneva|2012}} Brain Boeck thinks the figure more in the "hundreds of thousands".<ref name="boeckbrian"/> One source estimate that during the ] Krasnodar lost over 14% of its population.{{sfn|Leonavičius|Ozolinčiūtė|2019}}{{sfn|Wolowyna|2021}} Purges were also extensive in the region. 358 of 716 party secretaries in Kuban were removed, along with 43% of the 25,000 party members there; in total, 40% of the 115,000 to 120,000 rural party members in the North Caucasus were removed.{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004|p=178}} Party officials associated with ] were targeted, as the national policy was viewed to be connected with the failure of grain procurement by Soviet authorities.{{efn|name=Davies 2004, p. 190}} In this vein the Kuban corresponding to the famine had a reversal of the previously attempted policy of Ukrainisation. Prior to the reversal of Ukrainianization, the policy was failing in the Kuban with most local districts not completing it partially due to opposition by local Cossack nationalists and Russian chauvinists in the Kuban including by sabotage despite punitive threats from the state to complete the process made in May 1932.<ref name="boeckbrian"/>

The large Cossack stanitsa Poltavskaia sabotaged and resisted collectivization more than any other area in the Kuban which was perceived by ] to be connected to Ukrainian nationalist and Cossack conspiracy.<ref name="boeckbrian"/> Kaganovich relentlessly pursued the policy of requisition of grain in Poltavskaia and the rest of the Kuban and personally oversaw the purging of local leaders and Cossacks. Kaganovich viewed the resistance of Poltavskaia through Ukrainian lens delivering oration in a mixed Ukrainian language. To justify this Kaganovich cited a letter allegedly written by a stanitsa ataman named Grigorii Omel'chenko advocating Cossack separatism and local reports of resistance to collectivization in association with this figure to substantiate this suspicion of the area.<ref name="boeckbrian"/> However Kaganocvich did not reveal in speeches throughout the region that many of those targeted by persecution in Poltavskaia had their family members and friends deported or shot including in years before the supposed Omel'chenko crisis even started. Ultimately due to being perceived as the most rebellious area almost all (or 12,000) members of the Poltavskaia stantisa were deported to the north.<ref name="boeckbrian"/> This coincided with and was a part of a wider deportation of 46,000 ] from Kuban.<ref name="cossackspunished">{{cite magazine |title=Russia: Cossacks Punished |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,745027,00.html |access-date=22 October 2023 |magazine=] |date=30 January 1933|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528070739/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,745027,00.html |archive-date=28 May 2021}}</ref> According to the Holodomor Museum, 300,000 people were deported from the North Caucasus between 1930 and 1933, two thirds of them from the Kuban region.<ref>{{cite web |title=What was Stanytsia Poltavska punished for? |url=https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/news-museji/what-was-stanytsia-poltavska-punished-for/ |website=Holodomor Museum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104074837/https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/news-museji/what-was-stanytsia-poltavska-punished-for/ |archive-date=4 January 2024}}</ref>

Likely in connection to the affairs in Poltavskaia, Ukrainization was officially reversed in a decree on 26 December 1932; as stated in this decree, there was a two-week deadline to transfer all publishing and paperwork in the region to Russian, and the Ukrainian language was effectively banned in Kuban until 1991.<ref name="boeckbrian"/> A representative of the Ukrainian state publishing house claimed 1,500 Ukrainian teachers in the Kuban were either deported or killed though this number has not been verified.<ref name="boeckbrian"/> The professional Ukrainian theatre in Krasnodar was closed. All Ukrainian toponyms in the Kuban, which reflected the areas from which the first Ukrainians settlers had moved, were changed.{{sfn|Ellman|2007}} The names of ]s such as the rural town of Kyiv, in Krasnodar, was changed to "Krasnoartilyevskaya", and Uman to "Leningrad", and ] to "Krasnoarmieiskaya". Russification, the Holodomor of 1932–1933 and other tactics used by the Union government led to a catastrophic fall in the population that self-identified as being Ukrainian in the Kuban. Official Soviet Union statistics of 1959 state that Ukrainians made up 4% of the population, in 1989 – 3%. The self-identified Ukrainian population of Kuban decreased from 915,000 in 1926, to 150,000 in 1939.{{sfn|Ellman|2007}}

====Kazakhstan====
Ethnic minorities in Kazakhstan were significantly affected by the ] in addition to the Kazakhs. Ukrainians in Kazakhstan had the second highest proportional death rate after the Kazakhs themselves. Between the 1926 and 1937 censuses, Ukrainian population in Kazakhstan decreased by 36% from 859,396 to 549,859&nbsp;– mainly from famine and epidemics but also including emigration&nbsp;– while Uzbeks, Uighurs, and other ethnic minorities in Kazakhstan each lost between 12% and 30% of their populations.{{sfn|Ohayon|2016}}

=== Aftermath and immediate reception ===
]
Despite attempts by the Soviet authorities to hide the scale of the disaster, it became known abroad thanks to the publications of journalists ], ], ] and ], and photographs made by engineer ] and others. To support their ], the Soviets hosted prominent Westerners such as ], French ex-prime minister ], and others at ]s, who then made statements that they had not seen hunger.{{sfn|Loroff|Vincent|Kuryliw|2015}}{{sfn|Shaw|Wells|Keynes|Stalin|1934}}{{sfn|Thevenin|2005|p=8}}

During the ], the occupation authorities allowed the publication of articles in local newspapers about Holodomor and other communist crimes, but they also did not want to pay too much attention to this issue in order to avoid stirring national sentiment.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} In 1942, ], an ] in ], published a comprehensive statistical research on the number of Holodomor casualties, based on documents from Soviet archives.{{sfn|Sosnovy|1953|p=222}}

In the ] period, the ] disseminated information about the Holodomor in Europe and North America. At first, the public attitude was rather cautious, as the information came from people who had lived in the occupied territories, but it gradually changed in the 1950s. Scientific study of the Holodomor, based on the growing number of memoirs published by survivors, began in the 1950s.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

=== Death toll ===
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The Soviet Union long denied that the famine had taken place. The ] (and later ]) controlled the archives for the Holodomor period and made relevant records available very slowly. The exact number of the victims remains unknown and is probably impossible to estimate even within a margin of error of a hundred thousand.{{sfn|Soldatenko|2003}} However, by the end of 1933, millions of people had starved to death or otherwise died unnaturally in the Soviet republics. In 2001, based on a range of official demographic data, historian ] noted that official death statistics for this period were systematically repressed and showed that many deaths were un-registered.{{sfn|Uytkroft|2001|p=885}}

Estimates vary in their coverage, with some using the 1933 Ukraine borders, some of the current borders, and some counting ethnic Ukrainians. Some ] on the basis of deaths in a given area, while others use archival data. Some historians question the accuracy of Soviet censuses, as they may reflect ].{{sfn|Berezhkov|1993}}{{sfn|Kulchytsky|2002}}

Other estimates come from recorded discussions between world leaders. In an August 1942 conversation, Stalin gave ] his estimates of the number of "]s" who were repressed for resisting ] as 10 million, in all of the Soviet Union, rather than only in Ukraine. When using this number, Stalin implied that it included not only those who lost their lives but also those who were forcibly deported.{{sfn|Berezhkov|1993|p=317}}{{sfn|Kulchytsky|2002}}

There are variations in opinion as to whether deaths in ] should be counted or only those who starved to death at home. Estimates before archival opening varied widely such as: 2.5&nbsp;million (]);{{sfn|Kulchytsky|2002}} 4.8&nbsp;million (Vasyl Hryshko);{{sfn|Kulchytsky|2002}} and 5&nbsp;million (]).{{sfn|Conquest|2002}}

In the 1980s, dissident demographer and historian Alexander P. Babyonyshev (writing as Sergei Maksudov) estimated officially non-accounted ] in 1933 at 150,000,{{sfn|Maksudov|1981}} leading to a calculation that the number of births for 1933 should be increased from 471,000 to 621,000 (down from 1,184,000 in 1927).{{Verify source|date=April 2021}} Given the decreasing birth rates and assuming the natural mortality rates in 1933 to be equal to the average annual mortality rate in 1927–1930 (524,000 per year), a natural population growth for 1933 would have been 97,000 (as opposed to the recorded decrease of 1,379,000). This was five times less than the growth in the previous three years (1927–1930). Straight-line extrapolation of population (continuation of the previous net change) between census takings in 1927 and 1936 would have been +4.043 million, which compares to a recorded −538,000 change. Overall change in birth and death amounts to 4.581 million fewer people but whether through factors of choice, disease or starvation will never be fully known.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}

In the 2000s, there were debates among historians and in civil society about the number of deaths as Soviet files were released and tension built between Russia and the Ukrainian president ]. Yushchenko and other Ukrainian politicians described fatalities as in the region of seven to ten million.{{sfn|Fawkes|2006}}{{sfn|Sheeter|2007}}{{sfn|Kulchytsky|2003}}{{sfn| Yushchenko|2007}} Yushchenko stated in a speech to the ] that the Holodomor "took away 20 million lives of Ukrainians,".{{sfn|Yushchenko|2005}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Congressional Record House Articles |website=Congress.gov |date=6 April 2005 |url=https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2005/4/6/house-section/article/H1784-3 |access-date=23 April 2021 |archive-date=23 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423151238/https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2005/4/6/house-section/article/H1784-3 |url-status=live}}</ref> Former ] ] issued a public statement giving the death toll at about 10 million.{{sfn|Kyiv Post|2010}}{{sfn|O'Neil|2010}}{{sfn|Snyder|2009}}

Some Ukrainian and Western historians use similar figures. ] gave a figure of 7.5 million in 2007.{{sfn|Marples|2007|p=50}} During an international conference held in Ukraine in 2016, ''Holodomor 1932–1933 loss of the Ukrainian nation'', at the National ] ], it was claimed that during the Holodomor 7 million Ukrainians were killed, and in total, 10 million people died of starvation across the USSR.{{sfn|Shevchenko University news|2016}}

However, the use of the 7 to 20 million figures has been criticized by historians ] and ]. Snyder wrote: "President Viktor Yushchenko does his country a grave disservice by claiming ten million deaths, thus exaggerating the number of Ukrainians killed by a factor of three; but it is true that the famine in Ukraine of 1932–1933 was a result of purposeful political decisions, and killed about three million people."{{sfn|Snyder|2009}} In an email to ], Wheatcroft wrote: "I find it regrettable that Stephen Harper and other leading Western politicians are continuing to use such exaggerated figures for Ukrainian famine mortality" and "here is absolutely no basis for accepting a figure of 10 million Ukrainians dying as a result of the famine of 1932–1933."{{sfn|Kyiv Post|2010}}{{sfn|O'Neil|2010}}{{sfn|Wheatcroft|2000}} In 2001, Wheatcroft had calculated total population loss (including ]) across the Union at 10 million and possibly up to 15 million between 1931 and 1934, including 2.8 million (and possibly up to 4.8 million excess deaths) and 3.7 million (up to 6.7 million) population losses including birth losses in Ukraine.{{sfn|Uytkroft|2001|p=885}}

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|+ Declassified Soviet statistics<br /> (in thousands){{sfn|Kulchytsky|2002}}
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|- |-
| 1927 || 1184 || 523 || 662 |align=center |1927 || 1,184 || 523 || 661
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| 1928 || 1139 || 496 || 643 |align=center |1928 || 1,139 || 496 || 643
|- |-
| 1929 || 1081 || 539 || 542 |align=center |1929 || 1,081 || 539 || 542
|- |-
| 1930 || 1023 || 536 || 485 |align=center |1930 || 1,023 || 536 || 487
|- |-
| 1931 || 975 || 515 || 460 |align=center |1931 || 975 || 515 || 460
|- |-
| 1932 || 982 || 668 || 114 |align=center |1932 || 782 || 668 || 114
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|align=center |'''1933''' || '''471''' || '''1,850''' || '''−1,379'''
| 1933 || <span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>471</span> || <span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>1850</span> || -1379
|- |-
| 1934 || 571 || 483 || 88 |align=center |1934 || 571 || 483 || 88
|- |-
| 1935 || 759 || 342 || 417 |align=center |1935 || 759 || 342 || 417
|- |-
| 1936 || 895 || 361 || 534 |align=center |1936 || 895 || 361 || 534
|} |}


In 2002, Ukrainian historian {{Ill|Stanislav Kulchytsky|wd=Q4246777|short=y}}, using demographic data including those recently unclassified, narrowed the losses to about 3.2 million or, allowing for the lack of precise data, 3 million to 3.5 million.{{sfn|Kulchytsky|2002}}{{sfn|Kulchytsky|2004}}{{sfn|Kulchytsky|Yefimenko|2003|pp=42–63}} The number of recorded excess deaths extracted from the birth/death statistics from Soviet archives is contradictory. The data fail to add up to the differences between the results of the 1926 Census and the ].{{sfn|Kulchytsky|2002}} Kulchytsky summarized the declassified Soviet statistics as showing a decrease of 538,000 people in the population of Soviet Ukraine between 1926 census (28,926,000) and 1937 census (28,388,000).{{sfn|Kulchytsky|2002}}
According to the correction for officially non-accounted child mortality in 1933{{ref|Maksudov}} by 150 thousand calculated by Serhiy Maksudov, the number of births for 1933 should be increased from 471 thousand to 621 thousand. Assuming the natural mortality rates in 1933 to be equal to the average annual mortality rate in 1927-1930 (524 thousand per year) a natural population growth for 1933 would have been 97 thousand, which is five times less than this number in the past years (1927-1930). From the corrected birth rate and the estimated ''natural'' death rate for 1933 as well as from the official data for other years the natural population growth from 1927 to 1936 gives 4,043 thousand while the census data showed a decrease of 538 thousand. The sum of the two numbers gives an estimated total demographic loss of 4,581 thousand people. A major hurdle in estimating the human losses due to Holodomor is the need to take into account the numbers involved in migration (including ]). According to the Soviet statistics, the migration balance for the population in Ukraine for 1927 - 1936 period was a loss of 1,343 thousand people. Even at the time when the data was taken, the Soviet statistical institutions acknowledged that its precision was worse than the data for the natural population change. Still, with the correction for this number, the total number of death in Ukraine due to unnatural causes for the given ten years was 3,238 thousand, and taking into account the lack of precision, especially of the migration estimate, the human toll is estimated between 3 million and 3.5 million.


Historians estimate a quarter of the death toll was from children and extrapolate a further 600,000 lost births.{{efn|Lost births are additional births that would hypothetically have taken place had there been no famine.}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rudnytskyi |first1=Omelian |last2=Levchuk |first2=Nataliia |last3=Wolowyna |first3=Oleh |last4=Shevchuk |first4=Pavlo |last5=Kovbasiuk (Savchuk) |first5=Alla |date=2 April 2015 |title=Demography of a man-made human catastrophe: The case of massive famine in Ukraine 1932-1933 |url=https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/csp/index.php/csp/article/view/21772 |journal=Canadian Studies in Population |language=en |volume=42 |issue=1–2 |pages=53–80 |doi=10.25336/P6FC7G |issn=1927-629X |doi-access=free |access-date=1 September 2023 |archive-date=1 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230901073458/https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/csp/index.php/csp/article/view/21772 |url-status=live}}</ref>
In addition to the direct losses from unnatural deaths, the indirect losses due to the decrease of the birth rate should be taken into account in consideration in estimating of the ''demographic consequences'' of Holodomor. For instance, the natural population growth in 1927 was 662 thousand, while in 1933 it was 97 thousand, in 1934 it was 88 thousand. The combination of direct and indirect losses from Holodomor gives 4,469 thousand, of which 3,238 thousand (or more realistically 3 to 3.5 million) is the number of the direct deaths.


Similarly, Wheatcroft's work from Soviet archives showed that excess deaths in Ukraine in 1932–1933 numbered a minimum of 1.8 million (2.7 including birth losses): "Depending upon the estimations made concerning unregistered mortality and natality, these figures could be increased to a level of 2.8 million to a maximum of 4.8 million excess deaths and to 3.7 million to a maximum of 6.7 million population losses (including birth losses)".{{sfn|Wheatcroft|2001}}
According to estimates{{ref|Maksudov}} about 81.3% of the victims were ethnic Ukrainians, 4.5% Russians, 1.4% Jews and 1.1% were Poles. Also many Belorussians, Hungarians, Volga Germans and Crim Tatars perished during the Holodomor.


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==Elimination of Ukrainian cultural elite==
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The famine of 1932-33 fit well into the politics of assault on the elitist intelligentsia of Ukraine. At the 12th Congress of the ], Moscow's plenipotentiary Postyshev declared that "1933 was the year of the defeat of Ukrainian nationalist counter-revolution."{{ref|12thCongressCPbU}} This defeat referred to the repression of Ukrainian intelligenti and clergy.
A 2002 study by French demographer Jacques Vallin and colleagues {{sfn|Vallin|Meslé|Adamets|Pyrozhkov|2002}}{{sfn|Meslé|Pison|Vallin|2005|loc="What is striking in the long-term picture of Ukrainian life expectancy is the devastating impact of the calamities of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1933, the famine which had occasioned unparalleled excess mortality of 2.2 million, cut the period life expectancy to a low of under 10 years"}}{{sfn|Meslé |Vallin|2003}} utilising some similar primary sources to Kulchytsky, and performing an analysis with more sophisticated demographic tools with forward projection of expected growth from the 1926 census and backward projection from the 1939 census estimates the number of direct deaths for 1933 as 2.582 million. This number of deaths does not reflect the total demographic loss for Ukraine from these events as the fall of the birth rate during the crisis and the out-migration contribute to the latter as well. The total population shortfall from the expected value between 1926 and 1939 estimated by Vallin amounted to 4.566 million.{{sfn|Vallin|Meslé|Adamets|Pyrozhkov|2002}}{{sfn|Rudnytskyi et al. 2015}}


Of this number, 1.057 million is attributed to the birth deficit, 930,000 to forced out-migration, and 2.582 million to the combination of excess mortality and voluntary out-migration. With the latter assumed to be negligible, this estimate gives the number of deaths as the result of the 1933 famine about 2.2 million. According to demographic studies, ], which had been in the high forties to low fifties, fell sharply for those born in 1932 to 28 years, and for 1933 fell further to the extremely low 10.8 years for females and 7.3 years for males. It remained abnormally low for 1934 but, as commonly expected for the post-crisis period peaked in 1935–36.{{sfn|Vallin|Meslé|Adamets|Pyrozhkov|2002}}{{sfn|Rudnytskyi et al. 2015}}
By the end of the 1930s, approximately four-fifths of the Ukrainian cultural elite had been "eliminated".{{ref|Britannica}} Some, like Ukrainian writer ], committed suicide. One of the leaders of the Ukrainian Bolsheviks, ], witnessing the results of his cooperation with Moscow, shot himself in the summer of 1933. The Communist Party of Ukraine, under the guidance of state officials like ], ], and Postyshev, boasted in early 1934 of the elimination of "counter-revolutionaries, nationalists, spies and class enemies". Whole academic organizations, such as the Bahaliy Institute of History and Culture, were shut down following the arrests.


According to historian Snyder in 2010, the recorded figure of excess deaths was 2.4 million. However, Snyder claims that this figure is "substantially low" due to many deaths going unrecorded. Snyder states that demographic calculations carried out by the Ukrainian government provide a figure of 3.89 million dead, and opined that the actual figure is likely between these two figures, approximately 3.3 million deaths to starvation and disease related to the starvation in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933. Snyder also estimates that of the million people who died in the ] from famine at the same time, approximately 200,000 were ethnic Ukrainians due to Ukrainian-inhabited regions being particularly hard hit in Russia.{{sfn|Snyder|2010|pp=42–46}}
In the 1920s, the ] had gained a significant following amongst the Ukrainian peasants. Mass arrests of the hierarchy and clergy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church culminated in the liquidation of the church in 1930. Thousands of priests were tortured, executed and sent to ] in Siberia and the Far North.


As a child, ], born into a mixed Russian-Ukrainian family, experienced the famine in ], Russia. He recalled in a memoir that "In that terrible year nearly half the population of my native village, ], starved to death, including two sisters and one brother of my father."{{sfn|Gorbachev|2006}}
However, this repression of elitist sectors occurred in virtually all parts of the USSR. Furthermore, there is not any credible evidence that the repression of Ukrainian elitists was accompanied by restrictions of cultural expression. In 1935-36, 83% of all school children in the Ukrainian SSR were taught in Ukrainian even though Ukrainians were about 80% of the population. <ref> Ronald Grigor Suny, ''The Soviet Experiment''.


Wheatcroft and ] concluded that disease was the cause of a large number of deaths: in 1932–1933, there were 1.2 million cases of typhus and 500,000 cases of ]. Malnourishment increases fatality rates from many diseases, and are not counted by some historians.{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004|p=429}} From 1932 to 1934, the largest rate of increase was recorded for typhus, commonly spread by ]. In conditions of harvest failure and increased poverty, lice are likely to increase.{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004|p=512}}
==Was the Holodomor genocide?==
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Gathering numerous refugees at railway stations, on trains and elsewhere facilitates the spread. In 1933, the number of recorded cases was 20 times the 1929 level. The number of cases per head of population recorded in Ukraine in 1933 was already considerably higher than in the USSR as a whole. By June 1933, the incidence in Ukraine had increased to nearly 10 times the January level, and it was much higher than in the rest of the USSR.{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004|p=512}}
The inventor of the term "]", ] was a featured speaker at the manifestation of Ukrainian-Americans in September 1953 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the famine.<ref name=Bilin99/> Today, the heads of state, governments or parliaments of 26 countries, many of which belong to NATO, consider the 1932-1933 famine as an act of genocide. Among them ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. Most scholars today see the famine as a policy blunder that affected millions belonging to other nationalities. <ref> J.Arch Getty, "The Future Did Not Work", ''The Atlantic Monthly'', Boston: March 2000, Vol. 285, Iss.3, pg.113</ref>


Estimates of the human losses due to famine must account for the numbers involved in migration (including ]). According to Soviet statistics, the migration balance for the population in Ukraine for 1927–1936 period was a loss of 1.343 million people. Even when the data were collected, the Soviet statistical institutions acknowledged that the precision was less than for the data of the natural population change. The total number of deaths in Ukraine due to unnatural causes for the given ten years was 3.238 million. Accounting for the lack of precision, estimates of the human toll range from 2.2 million to 3.5 million deaths.{{sfn|Wheatcroft|2018|p=466}}
Some historians like Robert Conquest, whose works were published prior ot the declassifying of the the Soviet archives, feel that the famine of 1932–33 was artificial—that is a deliberate ], if not genocide , committed as part of ]'s ]. Many other historians like Stephen Wheatcroft, RW Davies, Mark Harrison, Mark Tauger, D'Ann Penner, and Gregory Freeze, however, assert that the famine was resulted from a series of insufficient harvests caused to a large extent by poor weather and the inadequate supply of horses. The researchers state that while the term Ukrainian Genocide is often used in application to the event, technically, the use of the term "genocide" is inapplicable.<ref name=Bilin99/> They argue that since the famine did not affect cities, and was limited to rural areas of Ukraine, it is not plausible to argue that the government tried to destroy the Ukrainian people as such. It has been suggested that the Holodomor be classified not as ], but as ].{{fact}}


According to Babyonyshev's 1981 estimate,{{sfn|Maksudov|1981}} about 81.3% of the famine victims in the Ukrainian SSR were ethnic Ukrainians, 4.5% ], 1.4% ] and 1.1% were ]. Many ], ] and other nationalities were victims as well. The Ukrainian rural population was the hardest hit by the Holodomor. Since the peasantry constituted a demographic backbone of the Ukrainian nation,{{sfn|Potocki|2003}} the tragedy deeply affected the Ukrainians for many years. In an October 2013 opinion poll (in Ukraine) 38.7% of those polled stated "my families had people affected by the famine", 39.2% stated they did not have such relatives, and 22.1% did not know.{{sfn|Interfax Ukraine|2013}}
In controversy, the term ], introduced by anti-communist ] is "the murder of any person or people by a government, ''including'' ], ], and ]". That the rural population (in 1932 75% to 85% of Ukrainians resided in villages) does not represent the whole nation, what terminology to use for the designation of an event that led to the extermination of roughly one quarter of the population of the former Soviet republic of the ] in 1932-1933, as well as the dispute to what extent the Soviet government deliberately aggravated the famine are the arguments that are often used for confrontation and politicization of the tragedy.<ref name="Himka">"I am not saying that the famine or the other components of the victimization narratives do not deserve historical research and reflection, nor that evil should be ignored, nor that the memory of the dead should not be held sacred. But I object to instrumentalizing this memory with the aim of generating political and moral capital, particularly when it is linked to an exclusion from historical research and reflection of events in which Ukrainians figured as perpetrators not victims, and when “our own” evil is kept invisible and the memory of the others’ dead is not held sacred." {{cite journal | first = John-Paul | last = Himka | authorlink = John-Paul Himka | year = | month = | title = War Criminality: A Blank Spot in the Collective Memory of the
Ukrainian Diaspora | journal = Spaces of Identity | volume = 5 | issue = 1 | pages = 5-24 | id = | url= }} </ref>


== Genocide question ==
According to the US Government Commission on the Ukrainian Famine () it alleged in a period during which Soviet archives were classified that the famine was caused by the seizure of the 1932 crop by the Soviet authorities. However, scholars since the declassifying of the Soviet archives have shown that the collection of grain by the state was in fact lower by 4 million tons than in the two previous years and in the succeeding year<ref>Wheatcroft and Davies</ref> The commission claimed that "while famine took place during the 1932-1933 agricultural year in the Volga Basin and the North Caucasus Territory as a whole, the invasiveness of Stalin's interventions of both the Fall of 1932 and January 1933 in Ukraine are paralleled only in the ethnically Ukrainian Kuban region of the North Caucasus",. Although, this neglects the fact that 20% of Ukraine's population at the time consisted of nationalities other than Ukrainian. This was also alleged by Nazi German observer Otto Schiller in 1933.{{ref|Schiller}}
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Scholars continue to debate whether the human-made Soviet famine was a central act in a campaign of ],<ref>{{harvnb|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004|pp=}}; {{harvnb|Tauger|2001|p=1}}; {{harvnb|Getty|2000}}; {{harvnb|Suny|2017|pages=94–95}}</ref> or a tragic byproduct of rapid ] and the collectivization of agriculture.{{sfn|Bilinsky|1999}}{{sfn|Kulchytsky2007- Evidential Gaps}}{{sfn|Fawkes|2006}}{{sfn|Marples|2005}} Whether the Holodomor is a genocide is ]. A number of governments, such as Canada, have recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide. The decision was criticized by ], who claimed that states who recognize the Holodomor as a genocide are motivated by emotion, or on pressure by local and international groups rather than hard evidence.{{sfn| Marples|2009}} In contrast, some sources argue that Russian influence and unwillingness to worsen relations with Russia would prevent or stall the recognition of Holodomor as a genocide in certain regions (for example, Germany).{{sfn|Yanchenko|2022}}


Scholarly positions are diverse. ] (a pioneer of genocide studies{{sfn|Andriewsky|2015}}{{Rp|page=35}} who coined the term ''genocide'', and an initiator of the ]), called the famine an intentional genocide. ] and ] have written that the Holodomor was a genocide and the intentional result of Soviet policies under Stalin.<ref>{{harvnb|Lemkin|2008}}; {{harvnb|Mace|1986|p=12}}; {{harvnb|Naimark|2010|pp=134–135}}</ref> According to Lemkin, Ukraine was "perhaps the classic example of Soviet genocide, its longest and broadest experiment in ]&nbsp;– the destruction of the Ukrainian nation". Lemkin stated that, because Ukrainians were very sensitive to the racial murder of its people and way too populous, the Soviet regime could not follow a pattern of total extermination (as in the ]). Instead the genocidal effort consisted of four steps: 1) extermination of the Ukrainian national elite, 2) liquidation of the ], 3) extermination of a significant part of the Ukrainian peasantry as "custodians of traditions, folklore and music, national language and literature", and 4) populating the territory with other nationalities with intent of mixing Ukrainians with them, which would eventually lead to the dissolution of the Ukrainian nation.{{sfn|Lemkin|2010}}{{sfn|Lemkin|2008}}
==Politicization of the famine==
Because of these four factors, Lemkin considered the Holodomor an attempt to destroy the whole Ukrainian nation, not just the Ukrainian peasantry.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Serbyn |first1=Roman |title=Role of Lemkin |url=https://education.holodomor.ca/teaching-materials/role-of-lemkin/ |website=HREC Education |access-date=21 May 2024}}</ref>
The "rediscovery" of his 1953 address about the Holodomor has influenced Holodomor scholars, especially his view of genocide as a complex process targeting institutions, culture, and economic existence of a group and not necessarily meaning its "immediate destruction".{{sfn|Andriewsky|2015}}{{Rp|page=35}}


Stanislav Kulchytsky, who recognizes Holodomor as genocide, believes that historians should approach the study of the famine with realization that in the Soviet socialist construction "appearance belied reality", and that the real intentions of some ideas and policies would not be put on paper. He nevertheless believes that there is enough evidence that proves that Stalin felt hostility and distrust towards Ukrainians and wanted to suppress any potential disobedience from their side. Kulchytsky bases his claims among other things on Stalin's telegrams and letters sent to the highest-ranked officials shortly before and during the time when most lethal policies were applied and executed in Ukraine and Kuban. He believes that while the famine started rather as a result of collectivization, near the end of 1932 it was turned into an instrument of intentional starvation of millions of Ukrainians to death.<ref>{{harvnb|Kulchytsky|2008}}; {{harvnb|Kulchytsky|2017}}; {{harvp|Kulchytsky|2020}}; {{harvp|Zaxid|2020}}</ref>
The famine remains a politically charged topic and hence heated debates are likely to continue for a long time. Until around 1990, the debates largely were between Marxists who either stated that it was unintentional and scholars who accepted reports of famine but stated that it was unintentional and those Ukrainian nationalists who allege that it was intentional and specifically anti-Ukrainian. Most scholars today see the famine as a policy blunder that affected millions belonging to other nationalities. <ref>J.Arch Getty, "The Future Did Not Work", ''The Atlantic Monthly'', Boston: March 2000, Vol. 285, Iss.3, pg.113</ref>


] states that, in his opinion, Holodomor meets the criteria of the ]. He does, however, refrain from using the term and prefers the term "mass killing" instead, arguing that the public misinterprets the term ''genocide'' as an intention to murder every member of the national or ethnic group, something that the ] and ] are closer to than any other cases, including the Holodomor.<ref name=proftim>{{cite speech |first1=Timothy |last1=Snyder |author-link1=Timothy D. Snyder |title=The Politics of Mass Killing: Past and Present |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0VBnTM61x0 |event=15th Annual Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Lecture and Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Symposium Keynote Address |publisher=] College of Liberal Arts |date=6 April 2017 |access-date=2 December 2023 |archive-date=13 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713001129/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0VBnTM61x0 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|1:30:50}}
Nowadays, the serious debate is restricted mainly to whether the Holodomor qualifies as the act of Genocide since either Famine itself or that it was unnatural is not disputed. The debate is still ongoing wheather the natural reasons, weather {{ref|weather}} or post-traumatic stress, played any role at all and in what degree the Soviet actions were caused by the country's economic and military needs as viewed by the Soviet leadership.{{ref|Marples}}


Other historians such as ] consider the Holodomor a ], but do not classify it as a genocide.{{sfn|Ellman|2007|pp=81–682, 686}} Economist ] and historian ] consider the death toll to be primarily due to state policy, and poor harvests.{{sfn|Rosefielde|1983}} Following the ], Conquest was granted access to the Soviet state archives alongside other western academics.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|2015}} In 2004, Wheatcroft published a private correspondence that he had with Conquest. In the exchange, Conquest wrote that he is now of the opinion that the Holodomor was not purposefully inflicted by Stalin but "''What I argue is that with resulting famine imminent, he could have prevented it, but put "Soviet interest" other than feeding the starving first – thus consciously abetting it''".{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004}} In an interview recorded in 2006 Conquest stated the Holodomor should be recognized as an attack on the Ukrainian people and discussed problems with the use of the term ''genocide''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chalupa |first=Irena |date=8 December 2008 |title=On 'Genocide' And Famine |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/RFERL_Interview_Robert_Conquest_Genocide_Famine/1357449.html |access-date=24 January 2023 |website=] |language=en |archive-date=25 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125193039/https://www.rferl.org/a/RFERL_Interview_Robert_Conquest_Genocide_Famine/1357449.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
Nowadays, the Holodomor issue is politicized within the framework of uneasy relations between Russia and Ukraine (and also between various regional and social groups within Ukraine). The anti-Russian factions in Ukraine have vested interest in advancing the interpretation that the Holodomor was a genocide, perpertrated by Russia-centric interests within the Soviet government. Russian political interests and their supporters in Ukraine have reasons to deny the deliberate character of the disaster and play down its scale.


], ], ] and ] reject the notion that Stalin intentionally wanted to kill Ukrainians, but conclude that Stalinist policies and widespread incompetence among government officials set the stage for famine in Ukraine and other Soviet republics.{{sfn|Getty|2000}}{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2002|p=69 et seq.}}{{sfn|Kotkin|2017}} ] believes that the famine was planned to undermine Ukrainian identity but discusses how shifts in understanding of the term ''genocide'' mean that it is more difficult to apply now that it was when the term was initially conceived. Another argument she puts forward is that the question of genocide is not as important as it once was because it was a proxy debate about Ukraine and Ukrainians' right to exist, a right which no longer needs historic justification.{{sfn|Applebaum|2017|pp=347–356}}
The Ukrainian communities are sometimes criticized for using the term Holodomor, or sometimes Ukrainian Genocide, or even ], to appropriate the larger-scale tragedy of collectivization as their own national terror-famine, thus exploiting it for political purposes.<ref name="Himka"/>


== Soviet and Western denial and downplay ==
One of the biggest arguments is that the famine was preceded by the onslaught on the Ukrainian national culture, a common historical detail preceding all known mass killings. Nationwide, the political repressions of 1937 under the guidance of ] were known for their ferocity and ruthlessness, but ] wrote, "In Ukraine 1937 began in 1933", referring to the comparatively early beginning of the Soviet crackdown in Ukraine. {{ref|Kopelev}}.
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Scholars consider Holodomor denial to be the assertion that the 1932–1933 famine in ] did not occur.{{sfn|Radzinsky|1996|pp=256–59}}{{sfn|Conquest|2001|p=96}} Denying the existence of the famine was the Soviet state's position and reflected in both ] and the work of some Western journalists and intellectuals including ], ], and ].<ref>{{harvnb|Radzinsky|1996|pp=256–59}}; {{harvnb|Pipes|1995|pp=232–36}}; {{harvnb|Ukrainian Weekly|2002}}; {{harvnb|Mace|2004|p=}}; {{harvnb|Totten|Parsons|Charny|2004|p=93}}</ref> In Britain and the United States, eye-witness accounts by Welsh freelance journalist ]<ref name="WalesOnline">{{cite news |date=13 November 2009 |title=Welsh journalist who exposed a Soviet tragedy |work=Wales Online, Western Mail and the South Wales Echo |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-journalist-who-exposed-soviet-2069992 |access-date=2 January 2022 |archive-date=18 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418214816/http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-journalist-who-exposed-soviet-2069992 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="SovietArticles">{{cite web |title=Famine Exposure: Newspaper Articles relating to Gareth Jones' trips to The Soviet Union (1930–35) |url=http://www.garethjones.org/soviet_articles/soviet_articles.htm |access-date=7 April 2016 |work=garethjones.org |archive-date=14 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114101134/https://www.garethjones.org/soviet_articles/soviet_articles.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> and by the ] ]{{sfn|Beal|2021}} were met with widespread disbelief.{{sfn|Brown|2009}}


In the Soviet Union, any discussion of the famine was banned entirely. Ukrainian historian Stanislav Kulchytsky stated the Soviet government ordered him to falsify his findings and depict the famine as an unavoidable natural disaster, to absolve the Communist Party and uphold the legacy of Stalin.{{sfn|Levy|2009}}
While the famine was ], its reality has been disputed due to the ] reasons, such as by the Soviet government and its spokespeople (as well as ] of the Soviet regime), by others due to being deliberately misled by the Soviet government (such as ]), and in at least one case, ], for personal gain.


== In modern politics ==
An example of a late-era Holodomor objector is ] ] ], author of ''Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard'' (1987). Tottle claims that while there were severe economic hardships in Ukraine, the idea of the Holodomor was fabricated as ] by ] and ], to justify a ]. Tottle is not a professional historian and his revisionist work did not receive any serious attention in the historiography of the subject.
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The event is considered a genocide by Ukraine{{sfn|InfoUkes Staff |2009}}<ref>{{harvnb|Gorbunova|Klymchuk|2020}}; {{harvnb|Kravchenko|2020|pp=30–34}}; {{harvnb|Marples|2007|p=246}}: "Still, the researchers have been unable to come up with a firm figure of the number of victims. Conquest cites 5 million deaths; Werth from 4 to 5 million; and Kul'chyts'kyi 3.5 million."; {{harvnb|Mendel|2018}}: "The data of V. Tsaplin indicates 2.9 million deaths in 1933 alone."; {{harvnb|Yefimenko|2021}}</ref>{{sfn|Yefimenko|2021}}{{sfn|Gorbunova|Klymchuk|2020}} and the ],{{sfn|European Pravda|2022}} and the ] of Russia condemned the Soviet regime "that has neglected the lives of people for the achievement of economic and political goals".{{sfn|National Museum of the Holodomor|2019}}
On ], ], the ] (parliament) of Ukraine passed a resolution declaring the famine of 1932–1933 an act of genocide, deliberately organized by the Soviet government against the ].


] (left) played a role in enforcing Stalin's policies that led to the Holodomor.{{sfn|Serbyn|2008}}]]
Heads of state, governments and parliaments of other countries such as ] , ] , ] , ] , ] ,] , ] , ] , ] ,
On 10 November 2003 at the ],{{sfn|Rada, Nov. 2006.}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Dahm |first=Julia |date=15 December 2022 |title=EU parliament votes to recognise 'Holodomor' famine as genocide |work=] |url=https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-parliament-votes-to-recognise-holodomor-famine-as-genocide/ |access-date=20 December 2022 |archive-date=20 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220081552/https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-parliament-votes-to-recognise-holodomor-famine-as-genocide/ |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Deutsche Welle, Dec 2022.}} 25 countries, including Russia, Ukraine, and United States signed a joint statement on the seventieth anniversary of the Holodomor with the following ]:
] , ] , ] , ] , ] and the ] have also officially recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide {{ref|USCommission}} {{ref|Monument}} {{ref|Pope}} {{ref|HR356}}.
<blockquote>In the former Soviet Union millions of men, women and children fell victims to the cruel actions and policies of the totalitarian regime. The Great Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor), took from 7 million to 10 million innocent lives and became a national tragedy for the Ukrainian people. In this regard, we note activities in observance of the seventieth anniversary of this Famine, in particular organized by the ]. Honouring the seventieth anniversary of the Ukrainian tragedy, we also commemorate the memory of millions of Russians, ] and representatives of other nationalities who died of starvation in the ], ], Kazakhstan and in other parts of the former Soviet Union, as a result of civil war and forced collectivisation, leaving deep scars in the consciousness of future generations.{{sfn|Ukrainian Weekly|2003}}</blockquote>In 1984, the ] established the ], which compiled its 1988 ''Report to Congress.'' In the report, the US government concludes with anecdotal evidence, that the Soviets had purposely prevented Ukrainians from leaving famine-struck regions. This was corroborated following the discovery of Stalin's letter to Molotov titled, "Preventing the Mass Exodus of Peasants who are Starving", restricting travel by peasants after "in the Kuban and Ukraine a massive outflow of peasants 'for bread' has begun", that "like the outflow from Ukraine last year, was organized by the enemies of Soviet power."<ref>{{harvnb|Martin|2001|pp=306–307}}: "TsK VKP/b/ and Sovnarkom have received information that in the Kuban and Ukraine a massive outflow of peasants "for bread" has begun into Belorussia and the Central-Black Earth, Volga, Western, and Moscow regions. / TsK VKP/b/ and Sovnarkom do not doubt that the outflow of peasants, like the outflow from Ukraine last year, was organized by the enemies of Soviet power, the SRs and the agents of Poland, with the goal of agitation "through the peasantry" . . . TsK VKP/b/ and Sovnarkom order the OGPU of Belorussia and the Central-Black Earth, Middle Volga, Western and Moscow regions to immediately arrest all "peasants" of Ukraine and the North Caucasus who have broken through into the north and, after separating out the counterrevolutionariy elements, to return the rest to their place of residence. . . . Molotov, Stalin"</ref> The commission published the earlier-mentioned letter written by Stalin to ] on 11 September 1932.<ref>{{cite web |title=Is the Ukrainian Genocide a Myth? |url=https://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/James_Mace/Is_the_Ukrainian_Genocide_a_Myth_anhl.pdf?PHPSESSID=ho2l7bb4c2gmor9b9j4qhetpi7 |access-date=25 March 2023 |work=James E. Marce |archive-date=25 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325182725/https://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/James_Mace/Is_the_Ukrainian_Genocide_a_Myth_anhl.pdf?PHPSESSID=ho2l7bb4c2gmor9b9j4qhetpi7 |url-status=live}}</ref>


The ] first recognized the Holodomor as a genocide in 2003,{{sfn|Verkhovna Rada, 2003.}} and criminalized both ] and ] in 2006. In 2010, the Kyiv Court of Appeal ruled that the Holodomor was an act of genocide and held ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and other ] leaders responsible.{{sfn|Interfax Ukraine|2010}}
==Remembrance==
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To honor those who perished in the Holodomor, monuments have been dedicated and public events held annually in Ukraine and worldwide. In Ukraine, the fourth Saturday in November is the official day of remembrace for victims of Holodomor and repressions.<ref>Bradley, Lara. "Ukraine's 'Forced Famine' Officially Recognized. ''The Sundbury Star''. 3 January 1999. </ref>


The ''Holodomor'' has been compared to the ] of 1845–1849 that took place in Ireland under British rule,{{sfn|Noack|Janssen|Cornerford|2014}}{{sfn|Bayer|2014}}{{sfn|Symposium: Starvation As A Political Tool, 2020.}} which has been the subject of ].
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Russia's war strategy in ] has drawn parallels with the Holodomor for the intentional impediment of relief supplies to civilians, the blockade of Ukrainian ports that threatened to cause famine in other countries, and the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure to deprive Ukrainians of the necessities of life.{{sfn|de Waal|Murdoch|2022}}{{sfn|Santora|Vinograd|2022}} {{As of|pre=early|2022|05|post=,}} Ukraine's Defense Ministry claims that Russian forces have plundered at least 500,000 tons of grain from farmers since the invasion started. This looting included the seizure of industrial farm equipment, such as tractors, and forcing farmers to surrender 70% of their grain yields.{{sfn|Lister|Fylyppov|2022}} Russia's use of starvation as a weapon of war in 2022 has been cited as part of a genocidal pattern in a major report by 35 legal and genocide experts.{{sfn|Diamond|2022}}

=== Government recognition of Holodomor ===
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After campaigns from the ] for the recognition of the Holodomor as a genocide, parliaments and governments of various countries have issued statements recognising the Holodomor as genocide including Ukraine{{sfn|Rada, Nov. 2006.}} and 14 other countries, {{As of|2006|lc=y|post=,}} including Australia, Canada, Colombia, Georgia, Mexico, Peru and Poland.

In November 2022, the Holodomor was recognised as a genocide by Germany, Ireland,{{sfn|Stewart|2022}} Moldova,<ref>{{Cite web |last=desk |first=The Kyiv Independent news |date=24 November 2022 |title=Romania, Moldova, Ireland recognize Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainian people |url=https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/romania-moldova-ireland-recognize-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainian-people |access-date=25 November 2022 |website=] |archive-date=24 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124230352/https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/romania-moldova-ireland-recognize-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainian-people |url-status=live}}</ref> Romania,{{sfn|Ukrinform|2022c}} and the ].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=24 November 2022 |title=Romania and Belarus' opposition recognized Holodomor as a genocide of Ukrainians |url=https://news.yahoo.com/romania-belarus-opposition-recognized-holodomor-171800062.html |access-date=25 November 2022 |website=The New Voice of Ukraine |language=en-US |agency=] |archive-date=24 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124234605/https://news.yahoo.com/romania-belarus-opposition-recognized-holodomor-171800062.html |url-status=live}}</ref> ] compared the Russian war in Ukraine with its targeted ] to the "terrible Holodomor Genocide", during an address at St. Peter's Square.{{sfn|Pianigiani|2022}}

Countries recognising Holodomor as a genocide:

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*{{flag|Australia}}{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|Belgium}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Belgium's House of Representatives recognises Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainians |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/03/10/7392803/ |access-date=10 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310104837/https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/03/10/7392803/ |archive-date=10 March 2023}}</ref>
*{{flag|Brazil}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The upper house of the Brazilian parliament has recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide. |url=https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/news/the-upper-house-of-the-brazilian-parliament-has-recognized-the-holodomor-as-an-act-of-genocide/ |access-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516084710/https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/news/the-upper-house-of-the-brazilian-parliament-has-recognized-the-holodomor-as-an-act-of-genocide/ |archive-date=16 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Aprovado reconhecimento do Holodomor como genocídio contra ucranianos |trans-title=Approved recognition of Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians |url=https://www12.senado.leg.br/noticias/materias/2022/04/26/aprovado-reconhecimento-do-holodomor-como-genocidio-contra-ucranianos |access-date=14 December 2022 |website=] |language=pt-br |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503022241/https://www12.senado.leg.br/noticias/materias/2022/04/26/aprovado-reconhecimento-do-holodomor-como-genocidio-contra-ucranianos |archive-date=3 May 2022}}</ref>
*{{flag|Bulgaria}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/bulgarian-parliament-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainian-people |title=Bulgarian parliament recognizes Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainian people |work=] |date=1 February 2023 |access-date=1 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530190914/https://kyivindependent.com/bulgarian-parliament-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainian-people/ |archive-date=30 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bulgaria's National Assembly declares the Holodomor In Ukraine a genocide |date=1 February 2023 |url=https://bnr.bg/en/post/101773202/bulgarias-national-assembly-declares-the-holodomor-in-ukraine-a-genocide |access-date=1 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203235238/https://bnr.bg/en/post/101773202/bulgarias-national-assembly-declares-the-holodomor-in-ukraine-a-genocide |archive-date=3 February 2023}}</ref>
*{{flag|Canada}}{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|Colombia}}{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|Croatia}}<ref name="Croatia">{{Cite web |last= |date=15 June 2023 |title=Croatian government supports recognition of Holodomor as genocide |url=https://kyivindependent.com/croatia-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainians/ |access-date=15 June 2023 |website=] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230630105651/https://kyivindependent.com/croatia-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainians/ |archive-date=30 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Mark |title=Croatian Parliament Unanimously Recognizes Holodomor as Genocide against the Ukrainian People |url=https://www.thedubrovniktimes.com/news/croatia/item/15122-croatian-parliament-unanimously-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-the-ukrainian-people |date=28 June 2023 |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701072543/https://www.thedubrovniktimes.com/news/croatia/item/15122-croatian-parliament-unanimously-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-the-ukrainian-people |archive-date=1 July 2023}}</ref>
*{{flag|Czech Republic}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The Czech Republic recognized the Holodomor of 1932–1933 as genocide in Ukraine |url=https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/news/the-czech-republic-recognized-the-holodomor-of-1932-1933-as-genocide-in-ukraine/ |access-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125170100/https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/news/the-czech-republic-recognized-the-holodomor-of-1932-1933-as-genocide-in-ukraine/ |archive-date=25 November 2022}}</ref>
*{{flag|Ecuador}}{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|Estonia}}{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|France}}<ref>{{cite web |title=French Parliament recognizes Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainian people |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3688723-french-parliament-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainian-people.html |date=29 March 2023 |access-date=29 March 2023 |archive-date=29 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329164927/https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3688723-french-parliament-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainian-people.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="France">{{cite news |url=https://kyivindependent.com/france-recognizes-holodomor/ |title=France recognizes Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians |date=28 March 2023 |work=] |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329074136/https://kyivindependent.com/france-recognizes-holodomor/ |archive-date=29 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reconnaissance et condamnation de la grande famine de 1932-1933, connue sous le nom d'Holodomor, comme génocide |language=fr |trans-title=Recognition and condemnation of the great famine of 1932-1933, known as the Holodomor, as genocide |url=https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/16/dossiers/holomor_genocide |website=] |access-date=30 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129170439/https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/16/dossiers/holomor_genocide |archive-date=29 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=French Senate recognizes 1932-1933 Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainian people |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3710648-french-senate-recognizes-19321933-holodomor-as-genocide-of-ukrainian-people.html |work=] |date=17 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521110823/https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3710648-french-senate-recognizes-19321933-holodomor-as-genocide-of-ukrainian-people.html |archive-date=21 May 2023}}</ref>
*{{flag|Georgia}}, 20 December 2005{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|Germany}}, 30 November 2022<ref>{{cite web |title=Німеччина визнала Голодомор геноцидом українського народу |trans-title=Germany recognized the Holodomor with the genocide of the Ukrainian people |language=uk |first=Iryna |last=Sitnikova |date=30 November 2022 |url=https://hromadske.ua/posts/nimechchina-viznala-golodomor-genocidom-ukrayinskogo-narodu |access-date=30 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130230515/https://hromadske.ua/posts/nimechchina-viznala-golodomor-genocidom-ukrayinskogo-narodu |archive-date=30 November 2022}}</ref>
*{{flag|Hungary}}, 26 November 2003{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|Iceland}}, 22 March 2023<ref>{{cite news |title=Segja hungursneyð í Úkraínu hafa verið hópmorð |trans-title=Say the famine in Ukraine was mass murder |date=23 March 2023 |url=https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/03/23/segja_hungursneyd_i_ukrainu_hafa_verid_hopmord/ |work=] |access-date=23 March 2023 |language=is-IS |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323135218/https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/03/23/segja_hungursneyd_i_ukrainu_hafa_verid_hopmord/ |archive-date=23 March 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=23 March 2023 |title=Iceland recognizes Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians |url=https://kyivindependent.com/iceland-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainians/ |access-date=28 March 2023 |work=] |language=en |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328065217/https://kyivindependent.com/iceland-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainians/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Iceland recognizes Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainian people |date=23 March 2023 |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3686451-iceland-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainian-people.html |access-date=23 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530133439/https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3686432-zelensky-visits-kherson-region.html |archive-date=30 May 2023}}</ref>
*{{flag|Ireland}}'s senate<ref>{{cite web |title=Ireland's Senate recognizes Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Ukraine as genocide |date=24 November 2022 |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3621342-irelands-senate-recognizes-holodomor-of-19321933-in-ukraine-as-genocide.html |access-date=24 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124182422/https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3621342-irelands-senate-recognizes-holodomor-of-19321933-in-ukraine-as-genocide.html |archive-date=24 November 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mark Daly |url=https://www.facebook.com/SenatorMarkDaly/posts/pfbid035FDubJcjJWyHLbPejpNEL4A2k5hyXw8rwYZShdWuyVqPtyWhVK3bvPc1bNseo9exl |access-date=14 December 2022 |website=] |language=en |archive-date=14 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214005644/https://www.facebook.com/SenatorMarkDaly/posts/pfbid035FDubJcjJWyHLbPejpNEL4A2k5hyXw8rwYZShdWuyVqPtyWhVK3bvPc1bNseo9exl |url-status=live}}</ref>
*{{flag|Italy}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Italy's Senate Votes To Recognize Holodomor Famine In Ukraine As Genocide|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/italy-senate-recognizes-holodomor-ukraine-genocide/32522340.html|date=27 July 2023|access-date=27 July 2023|website=RFE/RL|archive-date=27 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230727085625/http://www.rferl.org/a/italy-senate-recognizes-holodomor-ukraine-genocide/32522340.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*{{flag|Latvia}}{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|Lithuania}}{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|Luxembourg}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Luxembourg's parliament recognizes Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3722570-luxembourgs-parliament-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainians.html |date=14 June 2023 |website=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615022726/https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3722570-luxembourgs-parliament-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainians.html |archive-date=15 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |agency=] |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/luxembourg-parliament-recognises-holodomor-as-genocide-of-ukrainian-people/ar-AA1cvwDw |title=Luxembourg Parliament recognises Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainian people |work=] |date=13 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714120545/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/luxembourg-parliament-recognises-holodomor-as-genocide-of-ukrainian-people/ar-AA1cvwDw |archive-date=14 July 2023}}</ref>
*{{flag|Mexico}}{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|Moldova}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Romania, Moldova, Ireland recognize Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainian people |date=24 November 2022 |url=https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/romania-moldova-ireland-recognize-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainian-people |access-date=24 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221232844/https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/romania-moldova-ireland-recognize-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainian-people |archive-date=21 December 2022}}</ref>
*{{flag|Netherlands}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/07/7/7410240/ |title=Dutch House of Representatives recognises Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainian people |work=] |date=7 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162627/https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/07/7/7410240/ |archive-date=7 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Vaniyan |first=Roman |title=The Netherlands recognizes Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people |date=7 July 2023 |url=https://ukranews.com/en/news/943160-the-netherlands-recognizes-holodomor-as-a-genocide-of-the-ukrainian-people |work=Ukrainian News |access-date=7 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707163024/https://ukranews.com/en/news/943160-the-netherlands-recognizes-holodomor-as-a-genocide-of-the-ukrainian-people |archive-date=7 July 2023}}</ref>
*{{flag|Paraguay}}{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|Peru}}{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|Poland}}{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|Portugal}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Parlamento de Portugal reconheceu a Holodomor de 1932–1933 na Ucrânia como Genocídio contra o povo Ucraniano |language=pt |trans-title=Parliament of Portugal recognized the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Ukraine as Genocide against the Ukrainian people |url=https://www.spilka.pt/index.php/em-portugues/noticias/63-2009-05-11-21-22-35/2009-05-11-22-28-36/7372-voto-de-condenacao-n-233-xiii-reconhecimento-do-holodomor-grande-fome-de-1932-e-1933-ocorrida-na-ucrania |access-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401155815/https://www.spilka.pt/index.php/em-portugues/noticias/63-2009-05-11-21-22-35/2009-05-11-22-28-36/7372-voto-de-condenacao-n-233-xiii-reconhecimento-do-holodomor-grande-fome-de-1932-e-1933-ocorrida-na-ucrania |archive-date=1 April 2021}}</ref>
*{{flag|Romania}}, 24 November 2022<ref>{{cite web |title=Romania recognizes Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Ukraine as genocide |date=24 November 2022 |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3621132-romania-recognizes-holodomor-of-19321933-in-ukraine-as-genocide.html |access-date=24 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216155359/https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3621132-romania-recognizes-holodomor-of-19321933-in-ukraine-as-genocide.html |archive-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
*{{flag|Slovakia}}<ref name="Slovakia">{{Cite web |last= |date=20 June 2023 |title=Návrh skupiny poslancov Národnej rady Slovenskej republiky na prijatie uznesenia Národnej rady Slovenskej republiky k uznaniu hladomoru na Ukrajine v rokoch 1932-1933 za genocídu (tlač 1734). Hlasovanie o návrhu uznesenia |trans-title=Proposal of a group of deputies of the National Council of the Slovak Republic to adopt a resolution of the National Council of the Slovak Republic to recognize the famine in Ukraine in the years 1932-1933 as genocide (print 1734). Voting on the draft resolution |url=https://www.nrsr.sk/web/Default.aspx?sid=schodze/hlasovanie/hlasklub&ID=50635 |access-date=2 July 2023 |website=] website |language=sk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628162104/https://www.nrsr.sk/web/Default.aspx?sid=schodze/hlasovanie/hlasklub&ID=50635 |archive-date=28 June 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=20 June 2023 |title=Slovakian parliament recognises Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainian people |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/20/7407727/ |access-date=20 June 2023 |work=] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629052839/https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/20/7407727/ |archive-date=29 June 2023}}</ref>
*{{flag|Slovenia}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Angleški |first=S. T. A. |date=23 May 2023 |title=Slovenia recognizes Holodomor as genocide |url=https://sloveniatimes.com/slovenia-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide/ |access-date=24 May 2023 |website=] |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230524191239/https://sloveniatimes.com/slovenia-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide/ |archive-date=24 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Slovenija gladomor priznala za genocid, Zelenski se zahvaljuje poslancem |language=sl |trans-title=Slovenia recognized the famine as genocide, Zelenski thanks the MPs |url=https://www.24ur.com/novice/tujina/dz-sprejel-deklaracijo-o-priznanju-gladomora-kot-genocida.html |access-date=23 May 2023 |work=24ur.com |date=23 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529144345/https://www.24ur.com/novice/tujina/dz-sprejel-deklaracijo-o-priznanju-gladomora-kot-genocida.html |archive-date=29 May 2023}}</ref>
*{{flag|Switzerland}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/swiss-house-of-representatives-recognises-holodomor-famine-as-genocide/87605880 |title=Swiss House of Representatives recognises Holodomor famine as genocide |work=swissinfo.ch |date=24 September 2024}}</ref>
*{{flag|Ukraine}}<ref name=zakon>{{cite web|url=http://zakon4.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/376-16 |script-title=uk:ЗАКОН УКРАЇНИ: Про Голодомор 1932–1933 років в Україні |trans-title=Law of Ukraine: About the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Ukraine |language=uk |work=rada.gov.ua |date=28 November 2006 |access-date=6 May 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503083223/http://zakon4.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/376-16 |archive-date=3 May 2015}}</ref>
*{{flag|United Kingdom}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ukrainian Holodomor: Debated on Thursday 25 May 2023 |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-05-25/debates/6EC6E8AD-56E4-44BF-A0DC-1E077B9ED2E9/UkrainianHolodomor |website=] |access-date=30 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230525181543/https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-05-25/debates/6EC6E8AD-56E4-44BF-A0DC-1E077B9ED2E9/UkrainianHolodomor |archive-date=25 May 2023}}</ref>
*{{flag|United States}}{{sfn|Ukrainska Pravda|2018}}<ref>{{Cite web |website=] |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/931/text |title=Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the 85th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932—1933, known as the Holodomor, should serve as a reminder of repressive Soviet policies against the people of Ukraine. |access-date=13 December 2018 |archive-date=12 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181212093648/https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/931/text}}</ref><ref name=holodomor-us-senate>{{cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/931/text |title=Text – H.Res.931 – 115th Congress (2017–2018): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the 85th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933, known as the Holodomor, should serve as a reminder of repressive Soviet policies against the people of Ukraine |website=] |date=11 December 2018 |access-date=30 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829114336/https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/931/text |archive-date=29 August 2019}}</ref>
*{{flag|Vatican City}}{{sfn|Ucrainica Research|2009}}
*{{flag|Wales}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Welsh Parliament recognizes Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainian people |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3778588-welsh-parliament-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainian-people.html |date=25 October 2023 |access-date=25 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026020202/https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3778588-welsh-parliament-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainian-people.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
}}

Other political bodies whose legislatures have passed a resolution recognizing Holodomor as a genocide:
* {{flag|EU}}{{sfn|Ukrinform|2022e}}<ref name="Dahm, 2022">{{cite news |title=EU parliament votes to recognise 'Holodomor' famine as genocide |first=Julia |last=Dahm |date=15 December 2022 |url=https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-parliament-votes-to-recognise-holodomor-famine-as-genocide/ |work=] |access-date=20 December 2022 |archive-date=20 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220081552/https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-parliament-votes-to-recognise-holodomor-famine-as-genocide/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

== Remembrance ==
To honour those who perished in the Holodomor, monuments have been dedicated and public events held annually in Ukraine and worldwide.

=== Ukraine ===
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{{See also|Holodomor Memorial Day}}

], also known as ''Peasant Between a Cross and a Sword'', is the artist's indictment of the Great Famine.{{sfn|Horbachov|1998}} "Kasimir Malevich's haunting 'The Running Man' (1933–34), showing a peasant fleeing across a deserted landscape, is eloquent testimony to the disaster."{{sfn|Wilson|2002|p=}}]]

Since 1998, Ukraine has officially observed the ] on the fourth Saturday of November,{{sfn|Verkhovna Rada, 2007.}}{{sfn|Interfax Ukraine|2013}}{{sfn|AnyDay Guide|2017}}{{sfn|Rud|2016}}{{sfn|Van Herpen|2013|p=40}} established by a presidential decree of ]. In 2006, customs were established for a minute of silence at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, flags flown at half-mast, and restrictions on entertainment broadcasting.{{sfn| Yushchenko|2006}} In 2007, three days of commemorations on the ] included video testimonies of communist crimes in Ukraine and documentaries, scholarly lectures,{{sfn|Nat.RadioUkraine2007}} and the National Bank of Ukraine issued a set of commemorative coins.{{sfn|Nat.BankUkraine2007}}

{{As of|2009|post=,}} Ukrainian schoolchildren take a more extensive course of the history of the Holodomor.{{sfn|ZIK (information agency)|2009}}

The ] was erected on the slopes of the Dnieper river, welcoming its first visitors on 22 November 2008.{{sfn|National Museum of the Holodomor|2018}} The ceremony of the memorial's opening was dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor. The year 2008 was declared by president ] as the "Year of Remembrance" to commemorate victims of the famine.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Zadorozhnii |first=Oleksandr |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lMokDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 |title=International Law in the Relations of Ukraine and the Russian Federation: Monograph |date=2016 |publisher=Yuri Marchenko |isbn=978-617-684-146-3 |language=en |access-date=17 September 2023 |archive-date=1 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001230619/https://books.google.com/books?id=lMokDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In an October 2013 opinion poll, 33.7% of Ukrainians fully agreed and 30.4% rather agreed with the statement "The Holodomor was the result of actions committed by the ], along with Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and was the result of human actions".{{sfn|Interfax Ukraine|2013}} In the same poll, 22.9% of those polled fully or partially agreed with the view that the famine was caused by natural circumstances, but 50.5% disagreed with that.{{sfn|Interfax Ukraine|2013}} Furthermore, 45.4% of respondents believed that the Holodomor was "a deliberate attempt to destroy the Ukrainian nation" and 26.2% rather or completely disagreed with this.{{sfn|Interfax Ukraine|2013}}
] (right) and Russian President ] (left) near Memorial to the Holodomor Victims in Kyiv on 17 May 2010. Russia has since changed its policy and started downplaying or denying the Holodomor.]]
In a November 2021 poll, 85% agreed that the Holodomor was a genocide of Ukrainians.{{sfn|Rating Group Ukraine|2021}} A poll undertaken in Ukraine in 2022 recorded 93% agreeing that the Holodomor was a genocide with 3% disagreeing.{{sfn|Ukrinform|2022d}}
] at an event to mark the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, 25 November 2023]]
On 19 October 2022, Russian occupation authorities dismantled a Holodomor monument in the destroyed city of Mariupol on the basis that it was not a monument but a symbol of "disinformation at the state level".{{sfn|Balachuk|2022}} Ukrainian culture minister ] said "such acts signifies that the current Russian regime is a true successor to the one guilty of crimes against humanity and the Ukrainian people".{{sfn|New Voice - UA|2022}}

=== Germany ===
Perhaps the first public commemoration of victims was a procession held by Ukrainians displaced in the Second World War in 1948 in Munich, the administrative centre of the ] in Germany.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lypovetakyi |first=Sviatoslav |date=14 November 2020 |title=Vid the greatest generation do pokolinnia primarily dii |script-title=uk:Від The greatest generation до покоління прямої дії |url=https://tyzhden.ua/vid-the-greatest-generation-do-pokolinnia-priamoi-dii/ |access-date=5 April 2023 |website=] |language=uk |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405160956/https://tyzhden.ua/vid-the-greatest-generation-do-pokolinnia-priamoi-dii/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The most recent countries to recognize Holodomor as a genocide are Germany and Vatican City.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kończal |first1=Kornelia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-m9EAAAQBAJ&dq=holodomor+vatican+germany&pg=PT5 |title=Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory |last2=Moses |first2=A. Dirk |author2-link=A. Dirk Moses |date=27 June 2023 |publisher=] |isbn=978-1-000-89930-6 |language=en |access-date=17 September 2023 |archive-date=1 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001230223/https://books.google.com/books?id=C-m9EAAAQBAJ&dq=holodomor+vatican+germany&pg=PT5 |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Canada ===
The first public monument to the Holodomor was erected and dedicated in 1983 outside City Hall in ], ], Canada, to mark the 50th anniversary of the famine-genocide. Since then, the fourth Saturday in November has in many jurisdictions been marked as the official day of remembrance for people who died as a result of the 1932–1933 Holodomor and political repression.{{sfn|Bradley|1999}}

On 22 November 2008, ] marked the beginning of National Holodomor Awareness Week and Holodomor Memorial Day (the fourth Friday of November in Schools and the fourth Saturday of November globally). The success of this initiative is attributed to ], as chair of the National Holodomor Education Committee{{sfn|Ukrainian Canadian Congress |2020}} of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism Minister ] attended a vigil in ].{{sfn|CTV news|2008}} In November 2010, Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the Holodomor memorial in Kyiv, although Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych did not join him.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}

Saskatchewan became the first jurisdiction in North America and the first province in Canada to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide.{{sfn|Government of Saskatchewan|2013}} The Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day Act was introduced in the Saskatchewan Legislature on 6 May 2008,{{sfn|Visnyk|2008|p=13}} and received royal assent on 14 May 2008.{{sfn|Ukrainian Canadian Congress|2008}}

On 9 April 2009, the province of ] unanimously passed bill 147, "The Holodomor Memorial Day Act", which calls for the fourth Saturday in November to be a day of remembrance. This was the first piece of legislation in the Province's history to be introduced with Tri-Partisan sponsorship: the joint initiators of the bill were ], MPP for Brant (Liberal Party); ], MPP for Parkdale–High Park (NDP); and ], MPP for Newmarket–Aurora (PC). MPP Levac was made a chevalier of ].<ref>{{cite news |title= Ontario MPP gets Ukrainian knighthood for bill honouring victims of famine |url= http://www.thespec.com/news-story/2181600-ontario-mpp-gets-ukrainian-knighthood-for-bill-honouring-victims-of-famine/ |agency= ] |date= 20 November 2010 |access-date= 22 July 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150519051222/http://www.thespec.com/news-story/2181600-ontario-mpp-gets-ukrainian-knighthood-for-bill-honouring-victims-of-famine/ |archive-date= 19 May 2015}}</ref>

On 2 June 2010, the province of ] unanimously passed bill 390, "Memorial Day Act on the great Ukrainian famine and genocide (the Holodomor)".{{sfn|Ukrainian Canadian Congress |2010}}

On 25 September 2010, a new Holodomor monument was unveiled at St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church, ], Ontario, Canada, bearing the inscription "Holodomor: Genocide By Famine in Ukraine 1932–1933" and a section in Ukrainian bearing mention of the 10 million victims.<ref>{{cite web |title= Holodomor Monument – Пам'ятник Голодомору 1932–33 |url= http://www.stmaryscawthra.com/holodomor-monument.php |publisher= St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church |access-date= 22 July 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130106234945/http://www.stmaryscawthra.com/holodomor-monument.php |archive-date= 6 January 2013}}</ref>

On 21 September 2014, a statue entitled "Bitter Memories of Childhood" was unveiled outside the ] in ] to memorialize the Holodomor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukrainianwinnipeg.ca/holodomor-monument-unveiling/ |title=Unveiling of the Holodomor monument "Bitter Memories of Childhood" |publisher=UkrainianWinnipeg.ca |date=22 September 2014 |access-date=22 November 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108061605/http://www.ukrainianwinnipeg.ca/holodomor-monument-unveiling/ |archive-date=8 January 2017}}</ref>

A monument to the Holodomor has been erected on Calgary's ], itself originally designated to honour Canadian servicemen of the First World War. The monument is located in the district of ] near Ukrainian Pioneer Park, which pays tribute to the contributions of Ukrainian immigrants to Canada.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}

On 21 October 2018, a memorial statue was unveiled on Canada Boulevard in ] of Toronto. The site provides a place for an annual memorial on the fourth Saturday of November.<ref>{{cite web |website=www.explace.on.ca |publisher=Canadian National Exhibition Association |url=https://www.explace.on.ca/about/blog/the-holodomor-memorial-project |title=The Holodomor Memorial Project |access-date=19 June 2019 |archive-date=31 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231204105/https://www.explace.on.ca/about/blog/the-holodomor-memorial-project}}</ref>

=== Poland ===
On 16 March 2006, the ] paid tribute to the victims of the ''Great Famine'' and declared it an act of genocide, expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian nation and its efforts to commemorate this crime.<ref>{{cite web |title=Uchwała Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 16 marca 2006 r. w sprawie rocznicy Wielkiego Głodu na Ukrainie |language=pl |trans-title=Resolution of the Senate of the Republic of Poland of 16 March 2006 on the anniversary of the Great Famine in Ukraine |url=http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP20060210234 |access-date=9 March 2021 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl |archive-date=14 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314210539/http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP20060210234 |url-status=live}}</ref>

On 22 January 2015, a Holodomor monument was erected in the city of ].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://wpolityce.pl/historia/230797-odslonieto-pomnik-ofiar-wielkiego-glodu-na-ukrainie|title=Odsłonięto pomnik ofiar Wielkiego Głodu na Ukrainie|trans-title=Monument unveiled to victims of the Great Famine in Ukraine|language=pl|newspaper=wPolityce.pl|date=22 January 2015|access-date=22 November 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122045429/http://wpolityce.pl/historia/230797-odslonieto-pomnik-ofiar-wielkiego-glodu-na-ukrainie|archive-date=22 November 2016}}</ref>

=== United States ===
''The Ukrainian Weekly'' reported a meeting taking place on 27 February 1982 in the parish center of the ] in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Great Famine caused by the Soviet authorities. On 20 March 1982, the ''Ukrainian Weekly'' also reported a multi-ethnic community meeting that was held on 15 February on the North Shore Drive at the ] in Chicago to commemorate the famine which took the lives of seven million Ukrainians. Other events in commemoration were held in other places around the United States as well.{{citation needed|date=July 2012}}

On 29 May 2008, the city of ] held a candlelight commemoration for the Holodomor at the War Memorial Plaza in front of City Hall. This ceremony was part of the larger international journey of the "International Holodomor Remembrance Torch", which began in Kyiv and made its way through thirty-three countries. Twenty-two other US cities were also visited during the tour. Then-Mayor ] presided over the ceremony and declared 29 May to be "Ukrainian Genocide Remembrance Day in Baltimore". She referred to the Holodomor "among the worst cases of man's inhumanity towards man".{{sfn|Berg|2008}}

On 2 December 2008, a ceremony was held in ], for the Holodomor Memorial.{{sfn|Bihun|2008}} On 13 November 2009, ] ] released a statement on Ukrainian Holodomor Remembrance Day. In this, he said that "remembering the victims of the man-made catastrophe of Holodomor provides us an opportunity to reflect upon the plight of all those who have suffered the consequences of extremism and tyranny around the world".{{sfn|Interfax Ukraine|2009}}{{sfn|Obama|2009}} NSC Spokesman Mike Hammer released a similar statement on 20 November 2010.{{sfn|Obama2010}}

In 2011, the American day of remembrance of Holodomor was held on 19 November. The statement released by the White House Press Secretary reflects on the significance of this date, stating that "in the wake of this brutal and deliberate attempt to break the will of the people of Ukraine, Ukrainians showed great courage and resilience. The establishment of a proud and independent Ukraine twenty years ago shows the remarkable depth of the Ukrainian people's love of freedom and independence".{{sfn|Obama2011}}

On 7 November 2015, the ] was opened in Washington D.C.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.unian.info/world/1108244-holodomor-memorial-presented-in-washington.html |title=Holodomor Memorial presented in Washington |work=] |date=5 August 2015 |access-date=7 November 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117023032/http://www.unian.info/world/1108244-holodomor-memorial-presented-in-washington.html |archive-date=17 November 2015}}</ref>{{sfn|McDaniels|2015}}

In the ], both the ] and the ] adopted resolutions commemorating the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor, "the Soviet Union's manmade famine that it committed against the people of Ukraine in 1932 and 1933."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-resolution/74/text |title=Text – S.Res.74 – 116th Congress (2019–2020): A resolution marking the fifth anniversary of Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity by honoring the bravery, determination, and sacrifice of the people of Ukraine during and since the Revolution, and condemning continued Russian aggression against Ukraine |website=www.congress.gov |date=16 July 2019 |access-date=30 August 2019 |archive-date=29 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829114337/https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-resolution/74/text |url-status=live}}</ref> The Senate Resolution, S. Res. 435 (115th Congress)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-resolution/435/text |title=Text – S.Res.435 – 115th Congress (2017–2018): A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the 85th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933, known as the Holodomor, should serve as a reminder of repressive Soviet policies against the people of Ukraine |website=www.congress.gov |date=3 October 2018 |access-date=30 August 2019 |archive-date=11 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511000527/https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-resolution/435/text |url-status=live}}</ref> was adopted on 3 October 2018 and stated that the U.S. Senate "solemnly remembers the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 and extends its deepest sympathies to the victims, survivors, and families of this tragedy."

On 11 December 2018, the United States House of Representatives adopted H. Res. 931 (115th Congress),<ref name=holodomor-us-senate/> a resolution extending the House's "deepest sympathies to the victims and survivors of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, and their families" and condemned "the systematic violations of human rights, including the freedom of self-determination and freedom of speech, of the Ukrainian people by the Soviet Government."{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} On 12 May 2022, and at the 117th United States congress, a new H. Res. 1109 was adopted, recognizing the Holodomor as a genocide and the resolution to serve as a reminder of the repressive Soviet policies including the blockade policy that prevented the delivery of humanitarian aid and people from escaping.<ref>{{cite web |date=12 May 2022 |title=H.Res.1109 – Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Ukrainian famine of 1932–1933, known as the Holodomor, is recognized as a genocide and should serve as a reminder of repressive Soviet policies against the people of Ukraine |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/1109/text?r=1&s=1 |access-date=20 August 2022 |publisher=United States House of Representatives |archive-date=20 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220820213957/https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/1109/text?r=1&s=1 |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== On film ===
The 2019 feature film '']'', starring ] and directed by ], focuses on Jones and his investigation of and reporting on the Ukrainian famine in the face of political and journalistic opposition. In January 2019, it was selected to compete for the ] at the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_48917.html |title=Selection for Competition and Berlinale Special Completed |work=Berlinale |access-date=17 January 2019 |archive-date=26 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326173855/https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_48917.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The film won Grand Prix Golden Lions at the 44th ] in September 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/378608 |title=Mr. Jones tames the Golden Lions at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia |work=Cineuropa |date=23 September 2019 |access-date=27 October 2019 |archive-date=24 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924184737/https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/378608/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Vatican City ===
On 23 November 2022, ] held a ceremony to remember the victims of the famine. He referred to the Holodomor as a genocide. "Let us remember long-suffering Ukraine. This Saturday marks the anniversary of the terrible genocide of the Holodomor in 1932–1933 artificially caused by Stalin. Let us pray for the victims of this genocide and pray for the all Ukrainians, the children, the women and the elderly, the babies, who are today suffering the martyrdom of aggression."{{sfn|Ukrinform|2022a}}

=== Holodomor memorials ===
{{main|List of Holodomor memorials and monuments}}
<gallery> <gallery>
File:Edmonton Holodomor Memorial 2020.jpg|First in the world: 1983 Holodomor Monument in ], Canada
Image:HolodomorWindsor.jpg|A memorial in ], ]
File:Holodomor education van.jpg|Touring van devoted to Holodomor education, seen in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2017
Image:HolodomorKyiv.jpg|A monument in the capital of ] - ]
File:HolodomorKyivSvichky.jpg|"Light the candle" event at a Holodomor memorial in Kyiv
Image:HolodomorKharkiv.jpg|A memorial cross in ], ]
File:Holodomor Plaque Los Angeles.jpg|Plaque in ], ], ], United States
Image:HolodomorWinnipeg.jpg|A memorial in ], ]
File:Holomor Art Denysenko 1.jpg|Poster by Australian artist ]
Image:HolodomorEdmonton.jpg|A Holodomor monument in ], ]
File:Golodomor Stamps of Ukraine.JPG|Stamp of Ukraine, 1993
Image:HolodomorKyivSvichky.jpg|"Light the candle" event at a Holodomor memorial in ], ]
File:Monument dedicated to victims of years 1932-33 famine.jpg|Monument dedicated to victims of years 1932–1933 famine in Vyshhorod, Ukraine. The authors are ] and Oles Sydoruk
Image:HolodomorPoltava.jpg|A Holodomor memorial in ], ]
File:Field of Wheat (memorial).jpg|Holodomor Memorial to Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–1933, Washington DC.
Image:HolodomorCalgary.jpg|A Holodomor monument in ], ]
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== In culture and the arts==
==See also==
=== Cinema ===
* ]
* ''Harvest of Despair'' (1984), directed by ] (]) – {{YouTube|IHm_1uN80s0}}{{sfn|Klady|1985}}{{sfn|Blow|1985}}
* ]
* '']'' (1991), directed by Oles Yanchuk
* ]
* '']'' (2014), directed by ]
* ]
* '']'' (2015), directed by ], based on the book by ] – briefly describes the Holodomor
* ]
* '']'' (2017), directed by ]
* '']'' (2019), directed by ]
* ''Seeds of Hunger'' (2023), directed by Guillaume Ribot (documentary film)<ref>{{cite web |title=Events to Mark 90 Years Since the Holodomor |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/post/17001 |date=13 May 2023 |access-date=17 May 2023 |archive-date=17 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517185542/https://www.kyivpost.com/post/17001 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''Capital of Despair: Holodomor Chroniclers'' (2023), a documentary series directed by Roman Barabash – {{YouTube|jhvCfggrV3Q|Episode 1}} (in Ukrainian, English subtitles)


==Notes== === Literature ===
]'s novel '']'' (1934) is dedicated to the Holodomor (English translation published 1952).{{sfn|Samchuk|1952}}
# {{note|Potocki-320}} Potocki, p. 320.
# {{note|Potocki-321}} ibid, p. 321.
# {{note|Serczyk-311}} Serczyk, p. 311.
# {{note|Britannica}} E.g. Encyclopedia Britannica, "History of Ukraine" article.
# {{note|Rajca-77}} Rajca, p. 77.
# {{note|DaviesWheatcroft-424}} Davies, Wheatcroft, pp. 424-5
# {{note|weather}} Tauger 1991 {{ref|Tauger}} and the acrimonious exchange between Tauger and Conquest {{ref|Tauger-Conquest-1}} {{ref|Tauger-Conquest-2}}.


]'s book ''The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine'' (2023)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marsh |first1=Katherine |title=The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine |date=2023 |publisher=Roaring Brook Press |isbn=978-1-250-31361-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S-diEAAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> was a finalist in the 2023 ].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine |url=https://www.nationalbook.org/books/the-lost-year-a-survival-story-of-the-ukrainian-famine/ |website=National Book Foundation |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref>
==References==
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# {{note|Monument}}
# {{note|Pope}}
# {{note|HR356}} , U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., ], ]
# {{note|SovietDoc}} , ''"Resolution Of The Council Of People's Commissars Of The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic And Of The Central Committee Of The Communist Party (Bolshevik) Of Ukraine On Blacklisting Villages That Maliciously Sabotage The Collection Of Grain"'', ], ].
# {{note|Dalrymple}} Dana G. Dalrymple, ''"The Soviet famine of 1932-1934"'' in ''Soviet Studies'', Vol. 15, No. 3 (Jan., 1964). Pages 250-284.
# {{note|Conquest}} ], ''"The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine"'' (Chapter 16: "The Death Roll" ), University of Alberta Press, 1986.
# {{note|Tauger}} {{en icon}} Mark B. Tauger, ''"The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933"'' in Slavic Review 50 No 1, Spring 1991, pp. 70-89
# {{note|Tauger-Conquest-1}} {{en icon}} Letters of Mark Tauger and ] in Slavic Review 51 No 1, pp. 192-4
# {{note|Tauger-Conquest-2}} {{en icon}} Letters of Mark Tauger and ] in Slavic Review 53 No 1, pp. 318-9
# {{note|Marples}} {{en icon}} David Marples, '''' in ], June 28, 2002.
# {{note|Potocki}} Robert Potocki, ''"Polityka państwa polskiego wobec zagadnienia ukraińskiego w latach 1930-1939"'' (in Polish, English summary), Lublin 2003, ISBN 83-917615-4-1
# {{note|Serczyk}} {{pl icon}} Władysław A. Serczyk, ''"Historia Ukrainy"'', 3rd ed., Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Wrocław 2001, ISBN 83-04-04530-3
# {{note|Gregorovich}} Andrew Gregorovich, ''"Genocide in Ukraine 1933", part 4: "How Did Stalin Organize the Genocide?"'' , Ukrainian Canadian Research & Documentation Centre, Toronto 1998.
# {{note|USCommission}} U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine, ''"Findings of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine"'' , Report to Congress, Washington, D.C., ] ]
# {{note|Schiller}} Dr. Otto Schiller, ''"Famine's Return to Russia, Death and Depopulation in Wide Areas of the Grain Country"'' , The Daily Telegraph, ], ], as well as .
# {{note|12thCongressCPbU}} ''"12th Congress of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine, Stenograph Record"'', Kharkiv 1934.
# {{note|Dolot}} Miron Dolot, ''"Execution by Hunger. A Hidden Holocaust"'', New York 1985, ISBN 0-393-01886-5
# {{note|Maksudov}} Sergei Maksudov, ''"Losses Suffered by the Population of the USSR 1918–1958"'', in The Samizdat Register II, ed R. Medvedev (London–New York 1981)
# {{note|DaviesWheatcroft}} R.W. Davies & Stephen G. Wheatcroft, ''"The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture 1931-33"'', Palgrave 2004.
# {{note|Kopelev}} {{cite book | first= Orest| last= ] | title=Ukraine: A History | location= Toronto | publisher=University of Toronto Press,| year=1988 | id=ISBN 0-8020-5809-6 }}
# {{note|Rajca}} Czesław Rajca, ''"Głód na Ukrainie"'', Werset, Lublin/Toronto 2005, ISBN 83-60133-04-2
#{{note|Mace}} James Mace, ''"The Man-Made Famine of 1933 in Soviet Ukraine"'' in "Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933", p. 1-14, Edmonton 1986
# {{note|Hrycak}} Ярослав Грицак (Jarosław Hrycak), ''"Historia Ukrainy 1772-1999. Narodziny nowoczesnego narodu"'', Lublin 2000, ISBN 83-85854-50-9,
# {{note|Shapoval}} Yuri Shapoval, ''"The famine-genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine"'', Kashtan Press, Ontario 2005, ISBN 1-896354-38-6 (a collection of source documents)


==External links== === Theatre ===
The play ''Holodomor'' premiered in Tehran, Iran in February 2021.{{sfn|Tehran Times|2021}}
===Declarations and legal acts===
{{wikisourcepar|Joint Statement on Holodomor}}
* , U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine, Report to Congress. Adopted by the Commission, ] ]
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===Books=== == See also ==
{{Portal|Ukraine|Soviet Union|Genocide}}
* Robert Conquest, (1986)
{{Commons category}}
* Douglas Tottle, (1987)
{{Wikisource|Joint Statement on Holodomor}}
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===External links=== == Notes ==
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* {{uk icon}} {{ru icon}} {{cite web
{{efn|name=note-anodyne|The term ''anodyne administrative measure'' in the quote means a measure that was not meant to solve the problem but to calm the hungry crowds, or a measure which, in of itself, would not create opposition (See ]). The term ']' refers to pain relieving methods, drugs or remedies, used prior to the 20th century.}}
| title =The Harvest of Sorrow''
{{efn|name=Andriewsky 2015, p. 17|]. "Finally, new studies have revealed the very selective — indeed, highly politicized — nature of state assistance in Ukraine in 1932–1933. Soviet authorities, as we know, took great pains to guarantee the supply of food to the industrial workforce and to certain other categories of the population — Red Army personnel and their families, for example. As the latest research has shown, however, in the spring of 1933, famine relief itself became an ideological instrument. The aid that was provided in rural Ukraine at the height of the Famine, when much of the population was starving, was directed, first and foremost, to 'conscientious' collective farm workers — those who had worked the highest number of workdays. Rations, as the sources attest, were allocated in connection with spring sowing). The bulk of assistance was delivered in the form of grain seed that was 'lent' to collective farms (from reserves that had been seized in Ukraine) with the stipulation that it would be repaid with interest. State aid, it seems clear, was aimed at trying to salvage the collective farm system and a workforce necessary to maintain it. At the very same time, Party officials announced a campaign to root out 'enemy elements of all kinds who sought to exploit the food problems for their own counter-revolutionary purposes, spreading rumours about the famine and various 'horrors'. Famine-relief, in this way, became yet another way to determine who lived and who died."}}
| work =
{{efn|name=Britannica "Holodomor"|]. "The Great Famine (Holodomor) of 1932–1933 – a man-made demographic catastrophe unprecedented in peacetime. Of the estimated six to eight million people who died in the Soviet Union, about four to five million were Ukrainians&nbsp;... Its deliberate nature is underscored by the fact that no physical basis for famine existed in Ukraine&nbsp;... Soviet authorities set requisition quotas for Ukraine at an impossibly high level. Brigades of special agents were dispatched to Ukraine to assist in procurement, and homes were routinely searched and foodstuffs confiscated&nbsp;... The rural population was left with insufficient food to feed itself.}}
| url =http://zhnyva33.narod.ru/
{{efn|name=Davies 2004, p. 190|]. "In a considerable number of districts in Ukraine and the North Caucasus counter-revolutionary elements – kulaks, former officers, Petlyurians, supporters of the Kuban' Rada and others – were able to penetrate into the kolkhozy as chairmen or influential members of the board, or as bookkeepers and storekeepers, and as brigade leaders at the threshers, and were able to penetrate into the village soviets, land agencies and cooperatives. They attempt to direct the work of these organisations against the interests of the proletarian state and the policy of the party; they try to organise a counter-revolutionary movement, the sabotage of the grain collections, and the sabotage of the village."}}
| accessdate=2006-07-05
{{efn|name=Davies 2004, p. 437|]. "It was not until the autumn of 1932 that the restoration of proper crop rotation received the strong support of the authorities (see pp. 231–4). Meanwhile, much damage had been done. Such a dramatic expansion of sown area and reduction of fallow, without improved crop rotation and the careful introduction of alternative means for rejuvenating the soil with fertilisers or manure, was bound to lead to the reduction of yields and an increased likelihood of crop diseases. By 1932, in many regions, and particularly in Ukraine, soil exhaustion and crop diseases were widespread."}}
}} by Robert Conquest.
{{efn|name= UN signatory nations, 2003|]. "In the former Soviet Union millions of men, women and children fell victims to the cruel actions and policies of the totalitarian regime. The Great Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor), which took from 7 million to 10 million innocent lives and became a national tragedy for the Ukrainian people. ... s a result of civil war and forced collectivization, leaving deep scars in the consciousness of future generations. ... e deplore the acts and policies that brought about mass starvation and death of millions of people. We do not want to settle scores with the past, it could not be changed, but we are convinced that exposing violations of human rights, preserving historical records and restoring the dignity of victims through acknowledgement of their suffering, will guide future societies and help to avoid similar catastrophes in the future. ...}}
*{{cite web
{{efn|name=Marples 2009.|] "Ukrainian scholars who write most regularly on the famine, such as Yurii Shapoval (), Stanislav Kul'chyts'kyi (, , , ), Vasyl Marochko (, ) and Petro Panchenko et al. (), place emphasis on several factors that appear to elucidate the true causes of the famine: the rapid introduction of collectivisation in Ukraine compared to other regions; the unreasonable grain quotas placed upon Ukraine; the closure of the borders of Ukraine and the North Caucasus according to Stalin's directive of 22 January 1933 to prevent the migration of starving peasants; the fact that Ukrainian officials informed Moscow of the situation in Ukraine and the imminence of famine as early as 1932 but without any results; Stalin's letter to Kaganovich of 11 August 1932 that outlined his suspicions of the Ukrainian peasantry and his fear of 'losing Ukraine' (Davies et al.); the fact that the Extraordinary Commission in Ukraine led by Molotov took draconian measures, with its decree of 18 November 1932, confiscating not only grain, but also meat and vegetables, ensuring the inevitability of the peasants starving; the lack of such starvation in other republics, and most specifically Russia and Byelorussia; the link between the famine and the assault on the Ukrainian nation, as manifested by terror and deportations; the purge of cultural and national leaders; and the cessation of the earlier policy of Ukrainisation.}}
| title =US House of Representatives Authorizes Construction of Ukrainian Genocide Monument
{{efn|name=Martin 2001, pp. 306-307.|]. "TsK VKP/b/ and Sovnarkom have received information that in the Kuban and Ukraine a massive outflow of peasants 'for bread' has begun into Belorussia and the Central-Black Earth, Volga, Western, and Moscow regions. / TsK VKP/b/ and Sovnarkom do not doubt that the outflow of peasants, like the outflow from Ukraine last year, was organized by the enemies of Soviet power, the SRs and the agents of Poland, with the goal of agitation 'through the peasantry' ... TsK VKP/b/ and Sovnarkom order the OGPU of Belorussia and the Central-Black Earth, Middle Volga, Western and Moscow regions to immediately arrest all 'peasants' of Ukraine and the North Caucasus who have broken through into the north and, after separating out the counterrevolutionariy elements, to return the rest to their place of residence.' ... Molotov, Stalin}}
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{{efn|name=Werth, 2008.|] "And while hunger hit the peasants harder than any other group, resulting in the death of millions in atrocious conditions, another form of repression, of a police nature, struck others in Ukraine at the same moment — the political and intellectual elites, from village teachers to national leaders, via the intelligentsia. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians were arrested and punished with camp sentences"}}
| url =http://ucca.org/uccanews/story/1116051811.shtml
| accessdate=2006-07-05
}}
*{{cite web
| title =Statement by Pope John Paul II on the 70th anniversary of the Famine
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| url =http://www.skrobach.com/ukrhol.htm
| accessdate=2006-07-05
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*{{cite web
| title =Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the man-made famine that occurred in Ukraine in 1932-1933
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| url =http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/uscongr4.htm HR356
| accessdate=2006-07-05
}} U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., ], ]
*{{cite web
| title =Gareth Jones' international exposure of the Holodomor, plus many related background articles
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| url =http://www.garethjones.org/soviet_articles/
| accessdate=2006-07-05
}}
* {{uk icon}} at the Central State Archive of Ukraine (, )
* {{uk icon}}
* by Dr. Dana Dalrymple
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* (the recording is of the whole session, Kuchinsky's address starts at 27 min)
*{{cite journal
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}} A summary of Yuri Shapoval's lecture, 2003
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*{{cite journal | author=Yaroslav Bilinsky| title= Was the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 Genocide?| journal= Journal of Genocide Research | year= 1999| volume= 1| issue= 2| pages= 147&ndash;156 | url=http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/bilinsky.html }}
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* , author of several of the references listed above
* {{cite journal |last=Andriewsky |first=Olga |date=January 2015 |title=Towards a Decentred History: The Study of the Holodomor and Ukrainian Historiography |journal=] |publisher=] |volume=2 |issue=1 |page=17 |doi=10.21226/T2301N |doi-access=free}}
* {{cite web |author=AnyDay Guide |date=25 November 2017 |url=https://anydayguide.com/calendar/1463 |title=Remembrance Day for the Victims of Holodomors in Ukraine / November 25, 2017 |access-date=24 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201035922/https://anydayguide.com/calendar/1463 |archive-date=1 December 2017}}
* {{cite book |last1=Applebaum |first1=Anne |author1-link=Anne Applebaum |title=Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine |title-link=Red Famine |publisher=] |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-385-53886-2}}
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* {{Cite news |last=Balachuk |first=Iryna |date=19 October 2022 |title=Occupiers dismantle monument to victims of Holodomor in Mariupol |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/19/7372573/ |access-date=19 October 2022 |newspaper=] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117025954/https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/19/7372573/ |archive-date=17 January 2023 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |last1=Barkan |first1=Elazar |last2=Cole |first2=Elizabeth A. |last3=Struve |first3=Kai |date=2007 |title=Shared History, Divided Memory: Jews and Others in Soviet-Occupied Poland, 1939–1941 |publisher=Leipziger Universitätsverlag |pages=120–121 |isbn=978-3-86583-240-5}}
* {{cite news |last1=Bayer |first1=Alexei |title=Ukraine and Ireland: Overcoming Mighty Neighbors |url=https://www.theglobalist.com/ukraine-ireland-overcoming-mighty-neighbors/ |work=] |date=8 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505090304/https://www.theglobalist.com/ukraine-ireland-overcoming-mighty-neighbors/ |archive-date=5 May 2019 |access-date=22 August 2021 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |last1=Beal |first1=Fred Erwin |title= Proletarian Journey: New England, Gastonia, Moscow |author-link1= Fred Beal |date=2021|orig-date=originally published in 1937, New York: Hillman-Curl. |publisher=Hassell Street Press |isbn=978-1-01-433038-3}}
* {{cite book |last1=Berezhkov |first1=Valentin M. |script-title=ru:Как я стал переводчиком Сталина |title=Kak ya stal perevodchikom Stalina |isbn=5-85207-044-0 |date=1993 |publisher="ДЭМ" (DEM) |location=Moscow |language=ru |trans-title=How I became Stalin's translator |page=317}}
* {{cite web |last=Berg |first=Tabitha |date=6 June 2008 |title=International Holodomor Remembrance Torch in Baltimore Commemorates Ukrainian Genocide |url=http://enewschannels.com/2008/06/06/enc3223_160145.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105031558/http://enewschannels.com/2008/06/06/enc3223_160145.php |archive-date=5 January 2010 |publisher=eNewsChannels |access-date=22 July 2012}}
* {{cite journal |last=Bihun |first=Yaro |date=7 December 2008 |title=Site of Ukrainian Genocide Memorial in D.C. is dedicated |url=http://www.ukrweekly.com/archive/pdf3/2008/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_2008-49.pdf |journal=] |volume=76 |issue=49 |pages=1, 8 |access-date=22 July 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302003959/http://www.ukrweekly.com/archive/pdf3/2008/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_2008-49.pdf |archive-date=2 March 2014}}
* {{cite journal |last=Bilinsky |first=Yaroslav |year=1999 |title=Was the Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933 Genocide? |url=http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/bilinsky.html |journal=] |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=147–156 |doi=10.1080/14623529908413948 |access-date=5 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615023457/http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/uscongr4.htm |archive-date=15 June 2008}}
* {{cite web |last1=Blow |first1=Peter |others=]; Luhovy, Yuri and Novytski, S. (producers) |date=15 April 1985 |title=Film: Harvest of Despair: The 1932-33 Famine in Ukraine |language=en |url=http://ucrdc.org/Film-Harvest_of_Despair_annotated.html |access-date=17 December 2022 |location=Toronto |publisher=] |quote=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221217224042/http://ucrdc.org/Film-Harvest_of_Despair_annotated.html |archive-date=17 December 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Bociurkiw |first1=Bohdan R. |date=1982 |title=Soviet Religious Policy in the Ukraine in Historical Perspective |journal=Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe |volume=2 |number=3 |url=https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1012&context=ree |access-date=16 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306235156/https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1012&context=ree |archive-date=6 March 2023 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |last1=Boriak |first1=Hennadii |last2=von Hagen|first2=Mark |date=2009 |title=Sources for the Study of the 'Great Famine' in Ukraine |publisher=Ukrainian Studies Fund |location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0-940465-06-0 |series=The Holodomor Series}}
* {{cite news |last1=Bradley |first1=Lara |date=3 January 1999 |title=Ukraine's 'Forced Famine' Officially Recognized |newspaper=The Sudbury Star |location=Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |via=reprint at ArtUkraine.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308034620/http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/forcedfam.htm |archive-date=8 March 2012 |url=http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/forcedfam.htm}}
* {{cite news |first=Mark |last=Brown |date=13 November 2009 |title=1930s journalist Gareth Jones to have story retold |url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/nov/13/gareth-jones-story-retold-documentary |access-date=2 January 2022 |newspaper=] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211110421/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/nov/13/gareth-jones-story-retold-documentary |archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Busel |editor-first=Vyacheslav T. |ref={{sfnref|Busel 2001}} |orig-date=2001 |url=http://www.lingvo.ua/uk/Interpret/uk-ru/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80 |publisher=Perun |year=2004 |isbn=978-966-569-013-9 |location=Kyiv |language=uk |script-title=uk:Великий тлумачний словник сучасної української мови |title=Velykyy tlumachnyy slovnyk suchasnoyi ukrayinsʹkoyi movy |trans-title=Great Explanatory Dictionary of Modern Ukrainian |chapter=holodomor |script-chapter=uk:голодомор |script-quote=uk:Штучний голод, організований у величезних масштабах злочинною владою проти населення власної країни. |quote=Shtuchnyy holod, orhanizovanyy u velycheznykh masshtabakh zlochynnoyu vladoyu proty naselennya vlasnoyi krayiny. |trans-quote=An artificial famine organized on a huge scale by a criminal government against the population of its own country. |access-date=29 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603010902/http://www.lingvo.ua/uk/Interpret/uk-ru/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80 |archive-date=3 June 2016}}
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* {{Cite journal |last=Chamberlin |first=William Henry |date=1933 |title=The Balance Sheet of the Five Year Plan |journal=] |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=458–469 |doi=10.2307/20030526 |jstor=20030526 |issn=0015-7120}}
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* {{cite book |last=Conquest |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Conquest |year=2002 |orig-date=1986 |title=The Harvest Of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine |location=London |publisher=Pimlico |isbn=978-0-7126-9750-7}}
* {{cite web |author=] |date=22 November 2008 |title=Ukrainian-Canadians mark famine's 75th anniversary |url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/ukrainian-canadians-mark-famine-s-75th-anniversary-1.345010 |publisher=] |access-date=22 July 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018082438/http://www.ctvnews.ca/ukrainian-canadians-mark-famine-s-75th-anniversary-1.345010 |archive-date=18 October 2012}}
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* {{cite book |last=Davies |first=Norman |author-link=Norman Davies |year=2006 |title=Europe East and West |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4yWin1-ckYgC |location=London |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-224-06924-3 |via=] |access-date=18 March 2016 |archive-date=19 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219135653/https://books.google.com/books?id=4yWin1-ckYgC |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Davies |first1=Robert W. |author1-link=R. W. Davies |last2=Tauger |first2=Mark B. |last3=Wheatcroft |first3=Stephen G. |author3-link=Stephen G. Wheatcroft |url=https://www.academia.edu/3169517 |title=Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933 |journal=] |volume=54 |date=1995 |issue=3 |pages=642–57 |doi=10.2307/2501740 |jstor=2501740 |s2cid=163790684 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225000154/https://www.academia.edu/3169517 |archive-date=25 December 2022 |access-date=3 December 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |last1=Davies |first1=Robert W. |author1-link=R. W. Davies |last2=Wheatcroft |first2=Stephen G. |author2-link=Stephen G. Wheatcroft |year=2002 |chapter=The Soviet Famine of 1932–33 and the Crisis in Agriculture |chapter-url=http://www.melgrosh.unimelb.edu.au/documents/Davies_Wheatcroft_ch.4_Famine.pdf |editor-first=Stephen G. |editor-last=Wheatcroft |editor-link=Stephen G. Wheatcroft |title=Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History |location=Houndmills |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-333-75461-0 |access-date=21 July 2012 |archive-date=14 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514113320/https://melgrosh.unimelb.edu.au/documents/Davies_Wheatcroft_ch.4_Famine.pdf |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book|last1=Davies |first1=Robert |author1-link=R. W. Davies |last2=Wheatcroft |first2=Stephen |author2-link=Stephen G. Wheatcroft |date=2004 |title=The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 |series=The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia |volume=5 |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-230-27397-9 |oclc=1075104809}}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Davies |first1=Robert |last2=Wheatcroft |first2=Stephen |year=2006 |title=Stalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932–33: A Reply to Ellman |url=https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS2319/h16/pensumliste/stalin-and-the-soviet-famine-of-1932-33_-a-reply-to-ellman.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Europe-Asia Studies |volume=58 |pages=625–633 |doi=10.1080/09668130600652217 |jstor=20451229 |s2cid=145729808 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630071851/https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS2319/h16/pensumliste/stalin-and-the-soviet-famine-of-1932-33_-a-reply-to-ellman.pdf |archive-date=30 June 2019 |access-date=7 October 2018 |number=4}}
* {{cite web |author=Demoscope Weekly |publisher=Institute of Demography, National Research University Higher School of Economics |language=ru |number=493–494 |date=January 2012 |trans-title=All-Union census of the population of 1939: Ukrainian SSR |script-title=ru:Всесоюзная перепись населения 1939 года: Украинская ССР |title=Vsesoyuznaya perepis' naseleniya 1939 goda: Ukrainskaya SSR |url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_39.php?reg=2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119190805/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_39.php?reg=2 |archive-date=19 January 2012}}
* {{cite news |author=Deutsche Welle (DW) staff |title=European Parliament recognizes Ukraine Holodomor as genocide |url=https://www.dw.com/en/european-parliament-recognizes-ukraine-holodomor-as-genocide/a-64107714 |access-date=17 December 2022 |publisher=] |date=15 December 2022 |ref={{sfnref|Deutsche Welle, Dec 2022.}} |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221217025837/https://www.dw.com/en/european-parliament-recognizes-ukraine-holodomor-as-genocide/a-64107714 |archive-date=17 December 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite news |last1=de Waal |first1=Alex |last2=Murdoch |first2=Catriona |date=29 March 2022 |title=Russia could be guilty of starvation crimes in Ukraine. We must act |newspaper=] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/29/russia-could-be-guilty-of-starvation-crimes-in-ukraine-we-must-act |access-date=1 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331230118/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/29/russia-could-be-guilty-of-starvation-crimes-in-ukraine-we-must-act |archive-date=31 March 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |first=Yonah |last=Diamond |others=Prof. John Packer, Erin Farrell Rosenberg (Principal Advisors) with 35 additional contributing experts. Yonah Diamond was the Principal Author. |date=27 May 2022 |title=Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation's Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent |url=https://newlinesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/English-Report.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616080955/https://newlinesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/English-Report.pdf |archive-date=16 June 2022 |access-date=22 July 2022 |publisher=]; ]}}
* {{cite book |last=Dolot |first=Miron |year=1985 |title=Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust |url=https://archive.org/details/executionbyhunge00dolo_0 |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-393-30416-9}}
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* {{cite journal |last1=Ellman |first1=Michael |title=The Role of Leadership Perceptions and of Intent in the Soviet Famine of 1931 – 1934 |journal=] |date=September 2005 |volume=57 |issue=6 |pages=823–841 |doi=10.1080/09668130500199392 |s2cid=13880089}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Ellman |first1=Michael |title=Stalin and the Soviet famine of 1932 – 33 Revisited |publisher=] |journal=] |date=June 2007 |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=663–693 |doi=10.1080/09668130701291899 |s2cid=53655536 |author-link=Michael Ellman}}
* {{cite book |last1=Engerman |first1=David C. |title=Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development |date=2009 |orig-date=2003 |isbn=978-0-674-03652-9 |publisher=] |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UkFlO7 |via=]}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
* {{Cite web |author=European Pravda |author-link=European Pravda |date=15 December 2022 |title=European Parliament Recognises Holodomor as Genocide of Ukrainian People |url=https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2022/12/15/7152550/ |website=www.eurointegration.com.ua |access-date=24 November 2022 |language=en,ru,uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215140342/https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2022/12/15/7152550/ |archive-date=15 December 2022 |url-status=live}}
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* {{cite news |last=Fawkes |first=Helen |date=24 November 2006 |title=Legacy of famine divides Ukraine |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6179818.stm |work=] |access-date=21 July 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328063049/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6179818.stm |archive-date=28 March 2012}}
* {{cite news |last1=Finn |first1=Peter |title=Aftermath of a Soviet Famine |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/26/AR2008042602039.html |newspaper=] |date=27 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105103337/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/26/AR2008042602039.html |archive-date=5 November 2012 |access-date=29 August 2017 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Sheila |year=1994 |title=Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization |publisher=]}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Sheila |date=2015 |title=Impact of the Opening of Soviet Archives on Western Scholarship on Soviet Social History |journal=] |volume=74 |issue=3 |pages=377–400 |doi=10.1111/russ.12021 |jstor=43662294 |issn=0036-0341}}
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* {{cite magazine |last=Getty |first=J. Arch |author-link=J. Arch Getty |date=2000 |title=The Future Did Not Work |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/03/the-future-did-not-work/378081/ |access-date=18 July 2020 |magazine=] |quote="Similarly, the overwhelming weight of opinion among scholars working in the new archives (including Courtois's co-editor Werth) is that the terrible famine of the 1930s was the result of Stalinist bungling and rigidity rather than some genocidal plan." |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017084650/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/03/the-future-did-not-work/378081/ |archive-date=17 October 2021 |url-status=live}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Getty |first=J. Arch |author-link=J. Arch Getty |date=August 2018 |title=New Sources and Old Narratives |journal=] |language=en |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=450–455 |doi=10.1017/S0960777318000322 |s2cid=149507259 |issn=0960-7773|doi-access=free}}
* {{cite book |first=Mikhail Sergeevich |last=Gorbachev |date=2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JLQ2RZRtOFkC |title=Manifesto for the Earth: action now for peace, global justice and a sustainable future |publisher=Clairview Books |page=10 |isbn=1-905570-02-3}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Gorbunova |first1=Viktoriia |last2=Klymchuk |first2=Vitalii |title=The Psychological Consequences of the Holodomor in Ukraine |journal=] |volume=7 |number=2 |date=2020 |pages=33–68 |doi=10.21226/ewjus609 |s2cid=228999786 |doi-access=free}}
* {{cite web |author=Government of Saskatchewan |date=14 November 2013 |title=Saskatchewan recognises genocide during Holodomor Remembrance Week &#124; News and Media &#124; Government of Saskatchewan |publisher=Saskatchewan.ca |url=http://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2013/november/14/saskatchewan-recognizes-genocide-during-holodomor-remembrance-week |access-date=6 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506034809/http://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2013/november/14/saskatchewan-recognizes-genocide-during-holodomor-remembrance-week |archive-date=6 May 2015 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |last=Graziosi |first=Andrea |year=2004 |title=The Soviet 1931–1933 Famines and the Ukrainian Holodomor: Is a New Interpretation Possible, and What Would Its Consequences Be? |journal=] |volume=27 |issue=1/4 |pages=97–115 |jstor=41036863 |issn=0363-5570 |format=pdf |url=https://www.iris.unina.it/retrieve/handle/11588/335138/3891/GraziosiFaminesP |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207052257/https://www.iris.unina.it/retrieve/handle/11588/335138/3891/GraziosiFaminesP |archive-date=7 December 2022 |access-date=7 December 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |last=Graziosi |first=Andrea |date=2005 |title=Les Famines Soviétiques de 1931–1933 et le Holodomor Ukrainien |language=fr |trans-title=The Soviet Famines of 1931–1933 and the Ukrainian Holodomor |journal=Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |volume=46 |number=3 |pages=453–472 |doi=10.4000/monderusse.8817 |doi-access=free}}
* {{cite web |date=14 April 2020 |last1=Graziosi |first1=Andrea |last2=McGowan |first2=Mark G. |last3=Totten |first3=Samuel |last4=Shirinian |first4=George |last5=Apsel |first5=Joyce |title=Symposium: Starvation As A Political Tool From The Nineteenth To The Twenty-First Century: The Irish Famine, The Armenian Genocide, The Ukrainian Holodomor And Genocide By Attrition In The Nuba Mountains Of Sudan |url=https://holodomor.ca/starvation-as-a-political-tool-from-the-nineteenth-to-the-twenty-first-century/ |website=HREC Education |publisher=] |ref={{sfnref|Symposium: Starvation As A Political Tool, 2020.}} |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822185037/https://holodomor.ca/starvation-as-a-political-tool-from-the-nineteenth-to-the-twenty-first-century/ |archive-date=22 August 2021 |access-date=22 August 2021 |url-status=live}}
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* {{cite book |editor1-last=Hadzewycz |editor1-first=Roma |editor2-last=Zarycky |editor2-first=George B. |editor3-last=Kolomayets |editor3-first=Martha |year=1983 |title=The Great Famine in Ukraine: The Unknown Holocaust |location=Jersey City,&nbsp;NJ |publisher=]}}
* {{cite web |author=] |date=2013 |title=The Great Famine Project: Blacklisted Localities (Gallery) |url=https://gis.huri.harvard.edu/blacklisted-localities |website=gis.huri.harvard.edu |access-date=23 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105110539/https://gis.huri.harvard.edu/blacklisted-localities |archive-date=5 November 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |author=] |date=2018 |title=The Great Famine Project: Total Direct Famine Losses of Population per 1,000 by Raion in Ukraine for 1933 |url=https://gis.huri.harvard.edu/population-losses |website=gis.huri.harvard.edu |access-date=23 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105110527/https://gis.huri.harvard.edu/population-losses |archive-date=5 November 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |author=] |date=2022 |title=The Great Famine Project: New Insights |url=https://gis.huri.harvard.edu/new-insights |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116194731/https://gis.huri.harvard.edu/new-insights |archive-date=16 January 2022}}
* {{cite journal |first=Dmytro |last=Horbachov |url=http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/1_98/kazimir.htm |title=Fullest Expression of Pure Feeling |journal=Welcome to Ukraine |issue=1 |date=1998 |access-date=25 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224106/http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/1_98/kazimir.htm |archive-date=3 March 2016}}
* {{cite book |last1=Hryshko |first1=Vasyl |title=The Ukrainian Holocaust of 1933 |editor1-last=Carynnyk |editor1-first=Marco |isbn=978-0-9691830-1-3 |date=1983 |orig-date=1976 |publisher=Bahrianyi Foundation |location=Toronto}}
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* {{cite web |author=InfoUkes Staff |url=http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/ |title=The Artificial Famine/Genocide (Holodomor) in Ukraine 1932–33 |publisher=InfoUkes |orig-date=28 November 2006 |date=26 April 2009 |access-date=1 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124193048/http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/ |archive-date=24 November 2016 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |author=Institute of History of Ukraine |ref={{sfnref|Pyrih, 1990; No. 1-132.}} |editor1-last=Pyrih |editor1-first=Ruslan Y. |editor2-last=Kentii |editor2-first=Anatoly V. |editor3-last=Komarova |editor3-first=Irina L. |editor4-last=Lozytskyi |editor4-first=V. S. |editor5-last=Solovyova |editor5-first=A. A. |date=1990 |publisher=Kyiv-Mohyla Academy |location=Kyiv |title=Documents 1-132 extracted from "Голодомор 1932–33 років в Україні: документи і матеріали"/ Упорядник Руслан Пиріг; НАН України.Ін-т історії України.-К.:Вид.дім "Києво-Могилянська академія" |language=uk |trans-title=Documents 1-132 extracted from "The famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: through the eyes of historians, in the language of documents" |quote=] |access-date=7 September 2012 |url=https://www.archives.gov.ua/Sections/Famine/Publicat/Fam-Pyrig-1932.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815104813/http://www.archives.gov.ua/Sections/Famine/Publicat/Fam-Pyrig-1932.php |archive-date=15 August 2012}}
* {{cite book |author=Institute of History of Ukraine |ref={{sfnref|Pyrih, 1990; No. 343-403.}} |editor1-last=Pyrih |editor1-first=Ruslan Y. |editor2-last=Kentii |editor2-first=Anatoly V. |editor3-last=Komarova |editor3-first=Irina L. |editor4-last=Lozytskyi |editor4-first=V. S. |editor5-last=Solovyova |editor5-first=A. A. |date=1990 |publisher=Kyiv-Mohyla Academy |location=Kyiv |title=Documents 343-403 extracted from "Голодомор 1932–33 років в Україні: документи і матеріали"/ Упорядник Руслан Пиріг; НАН України.Ін-т історії України.-К.:Вид.дім "Києво-Могилянська академія" |language=uk |trans-title=Documents 343-403 extracted from "The famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: through the eyes of historians, in the language of documents" |quote=] |url=https://www.archives.gov.ua/Sections/Famine/Publicat/Fam-kolekt-1933.php |access-date=7 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815125317/http://www.archives.gov.ua/Sections/Famine/Publicat/Fam-kolekt-1933.php |archive-date=15 August 2012}}
* {{cite news |author=Interfax Ukraine |date=14 November 2009 |author-link=Interfax-Ukraine |title=Remembrance of Holodomor in Ukraine will help prevent such tragedy in future, says Obama |url=http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/24889.html |agency=] |access-date=22 July 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301234647/http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/24889.html |archive-date=1 March 2014}}
* {{cite news |author=Interfax Ukraine |author-link=Interfax-Ukraine |date=21 January 2010 |title=Sentence to Stalin, his comrades for organizing Holodomor takes effect in Ukraine |url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/sentence-to-stalin-his-comrades-for-organizing-hol.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303231855/http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/sentence-to-stalin-his-comrades-for-organizing-hol.html |archive-date=3 March 2014 |publisher=]}}
* {{cite news |author=Interfax Ukraine |date=20 November 2013 |author-link1=Interfax-Ukraine |url=http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/175778.html |title=Poll: Almost two-thirds of Ukrainians believe famine of 1932–1933 was organized by Stalinist regime |work=] |access-date=28 February 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304021312/http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/175778.html |archive-date=4 March 2016}}
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* {{cite book |last=Jones |first=Adam |date=2017 |title=Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction |edition=3rd |publisher=] |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-1-138-82384-6 |quote=Holodomor{{snd}}the Ukrainian "famine-extermination" of 1932–1933 at the hands of Stalin's Soviet regime (Chapter 5); "a compound word combining the root ''holod'' 'hunger' with the verbal root ''mor'' 'extinguish', 'exterminate' (Lubomyr Hajda, Harvard University).}}
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* {{cite web |author=Kharkiv Oblast secretary |date=9 April 1933 |title=Kharkiv Oblast State Archive Ф. П - 58, catalogue 1, file 59, lists 146-147, 152. |url=http://www.golodomor.kharkov.ua/docs.php?pagep=20&doc=334 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901160840/http://www.golodomor.kharkov.ua/docs.php?pagep=20&doc=334 |archive-date=1 September 2010}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Klady |first1=Leonard |date=1985 |orig-date=originally published by Winnipeg Free Press, 26 October 1984 |title=Famine Film ''Harvest of Despair'' |journal=Forum: A Ukrainian Review |publisher=Ukrainian Fraternal Association |location=Scranton |number=61 |access-date=17 December 2022 |via=InfoUkes |url=http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/harvest_of_despair/ |archive-date=4 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104181945/http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/harvest_of_despair/ |url-status=live}}
* {{cite interview |last=Kotkin |first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Kotkin |date=8 November 2017 |url=https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/11/08/studying-stalin/ |title=Terrible Talent: Studying Stalin |magazine=] |interviewer=Richard Aldous |access-date=26 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108025813/https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/11/08/studying-stalin/ |archive-date=8 November 2021 |url-status=live}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Kravchenko |first=Ye |date=1 July 2020 |title=The Concept of Demographic Losses in the Holodomor Studies |url=https://visnyk.history.knu.ua/eng/archive/2020/144-eng/144-6-kravchenko-eng |journal=Vìsnik - Kiïvsʹkij nacìonalʹnij unìversitet ìmenì Tarasa Ševčenka: Ìstorìâ |language=en |issue=144 |pages=30–34 |doi=10.17721/1728-2640.2020.144.6 |s2cid=226687490 |issn=1728-2640 |doi-access=free |access-date=7 September 2023 |archive-date=1 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001230456/https://visnyk.history.knu.ua/eng/archive/2020/144-eng/144-6-kravchenko-eng |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |last=Kulchytsky |first=Stalislav |trans-title=How many of us perished in Holodomor in 1933 |date=22 November 2002 |journal=] |script-title=uk:Скільки нас загинуло від Голодомору 1933 року? |title=Skilʹky nas zahynulo vid Holodomoru 1933 roku? |language=uk |url=https://dt.ua/SOCIUM/skilki_nas_zaginulo_pid_golodomoru_1933_roku.html |access-date=20 January 2021}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kulchytsky |first1=Stanislav |last2=Yefimenko |first2=Hennadiy |year=2003 |pages=42–63 |script-title=uk:Демографічні наслідки голодомору 1933 р. в Україні. Всесоюзний перепис 1937 р. в Україні: документи та матеріали |title=Demohrafichni naslidky holodomoru 1933 r. v Ukrayini. Vsesoyuznyy perepys 1937 r. v Ukrayini: dokumenty ta materialy |language=uk |trans-title=Demographic consequences of the 1933 Holodomor in Ukraine. The all-Union census of 1937 in Ukraine: Documents and Materials |archive-date=23 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523184052/http://histans.com/LiberUA/Book/Ki/4.pdf |chapter=Kulchytsky pages 42-64 |chapter-url=http://histans.com/LiberUA/Book/Ki/4.pdf |url=http://www.history.org.ua/index.php?litera&id=2027 |location=Kyiv |publisher=Institute of History |isbn=978-966-02-3014-9}}
* {{cite journal |last=Kulchytsky |first=Stanislav |date=22 August 2003 |script-title=uk:Причини голоду 1933 року в Україні по сторінках однієї підзабутої книги |title=Prychyny holodu 1933 roku v Ukrayini po storinkakh odniyeyi pidzabutoyi knyhy |trans-title=Reasons for the 1933 famine in Ukraine according to the pages of one all but forgotten book |language=uk |journal=] |issue=16 |url=https://dt.ua/SOCIUM/prichini_golodu_1933_roku_v_ukrayini_po_storinkah_odnieyi_prizabutoyi_knigi.html |access-date=20 January 2021 |quote=During the hearings, the Ukrainian politician ] said, 'I would like to address the scientists, particularly, Stanislav Kulchytsky, who attempts to mark down the number of victims and counts them as 3–3.5 million. I studied these questions analysing the demographic statistics as early as in 1970s and concluded that the number of victims was no less than 7 million'.}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
* {{cite journal |last=Kulchytsky |first=Stalislav |trans-title=Demographic losses in Ukrainian in the twentieth century |date=1 October 2004 |url=https://dt.ua/SOCIUM/demografichni_vtrati_ukrayini_v_hh_stolitti.html |title=Demohrafichni vtraty Ukrayiny v khkh stolitti |script-title=uk:Демографічні втрати України в хх столітті |language=uk |access-date=20 January 2021 |journal=]}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
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* {{cite news |last=Kulchytsky |first=Stanislav |date=25 October 2005 |issue=33–39 |ref=Kulchytsky2005 |title=Why did Stalin exterminate the Ukrainians? Comprehending the Holodomor. The position of Soviet historians{{spaced ndash}}Six-part series |newspaper=] |language=en |via=Orange Revolution website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927190108/http://www.orangerevolution.us/blog/_archives/2005/12/18/1454373.html |archive-date=27 September 2007 |url=http://www.orangerevolution.us/blog/_archives/2005/12/18/1454373.html}}

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::: {{cite news |ref={{sfnref| Kulchytsky Stalin1}} |newspaper=] |title=Part 1 |quote=] |date=25 October 2005 |issue=33 |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/why-did-stalin-exterminate-ukrainians-4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627212021/https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/why-did-stalin-exterminate-ukrainians-4 |archive-date=27 June 2022}}
::: {{cite news |ref={{sfnref| Kulchytsky Stalin2}} |newspaper=] |title=Part 2 |quote=] |date=1 November 2005 |issue=34 |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/why-did-stalin-exterminate-ukrainians-3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220820211035/https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/why-did-stalin-exterminate-ukrainians-3 |archive-date=20 August 2022}}
::: {{cite news |ref={{sfnref| Kulchytsky Stalin3}} |newspaper=] |title=Part 3 |quote=] |date=8 November 2005 |issue=35 |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/why-did-stalin-exterminate-ukrainians-2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031204914/https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/why-did-stalin-exterminate-ukrainians-2 |archive-date=31 October 2022}}
::: {{cite news |ref={{sfnref| Kulchytsky Stalin4}} |newspaper=] |title=Part 4 |quote=] |date=22 November 2005 |issue=37 |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/why-did-stalin-exterminate-ukrainians-1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031204914/https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/why-did-stalin-exterminate-ukrainians-1 |archive-date=31 October 2022}}
::: {{cite news |ref={{sfnref| Kulchytsky Stalin5}} |newspaper=] |title=Part 5 |quote=] |date=29 November 2005 |issue=38 |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/why-did-stalin-exterminate-ukrainians-0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627210051/https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/why-did-stalin-exterminate-ukrainians-0 |archive-date=27 June 2022}}
::: {{cite news |ref={{sfnref| Kulchytsky Stalin6}} |newspaper=] |title=Part 6 |quote=] |date=6 December 2005 |issue=39 |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/why-did-stalin-exterminate-ukrainians |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627210009/https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/why-did-stalin-exterminate-ukrainians |archive-date=27 June 2022}}
* {{cite journal |last=Kulchytsky |first=Stanislav |script-title=uk:Голодомор-33: чому і як? |title=Holodomor-33: chomu i yak? |trans-title=Holodomor-33: Why and how? |journal=] |language=uk |issue=25 |date=24 November 2006 |url=https://dt.ua/SOCIUM/golodomor-33_chomu_i_yak.html |access-date=1 December 2022}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
* {{cite news |ref={{sfnref|Kulchytsky2007- Evidential Gaps}} |last=Kulchytsky |first=Stanislav |author-link=:uk:Кульчицький Станіслав Владиславович |date=13 February 2007 |issue=5 |title=Holodomor of 1932–33 as genocide: gaps in the evidential basis Part 1 of 4 |quote=], ], ]. |newspaper=] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302083339/https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/day-after-day/holodomor-1932-33-genocide-gaps-evidential-basis |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/day-after-day/holodomor-1932-33-genocide-gaps-evidential-basis |archive-date=2 March 2022}}
* {{cite news |last=Kulchytsky |first=Stanislav |author-link=:uk:Кульчицький Станіслав Владиславович |date=27 February 2007 |issue=7 |title=Holodomor of 1932–33 as genocide: gaps in the evidential basis Part 2 |ref=Kulch2005.2 |newspaper=] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302081200/https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/close/holodomor-1932-33-genocide-gaps-thevidential-basis |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/close/holodomor-1932-33-genocide-gaps-thevidential-basis |archive-date=2 March 2022}}
* {{cite news |last=Kulchytsky |first=Stanislav |author-link=:uk:Кульчицький Станіслав Владиславович |date=6 March 2007 |issue=8 |title=Holodomor of 1932–33 as genocide: gaps in the evidential basis Part 3 |ref=Kulch2005.3 |newspaper=] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501113747/https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/close/holodomor-1932-33-genocide-gaps-evidential-basis-0 |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/close/holodomor-1932-33-genocide-gaps-evidential-basis-0 |archive-date=1 May 2022}}
* {{cite news |last=Kulchytsky |first=Stanislav |author-link=:uk:Кульчицький Станіслав Владиславович |date=20 March 2007 |issue=9 |title=Holodomor of 1932–33 as genocide: gaps in the evidential basis Part 4 |ref=Kulch2005.4 |newspaper=] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627201933/https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/close/holodomor-1932-33-genocide-gaps-evidential-basis |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/close/holodomor-1932-33-genocide-gaps-evidential-basis |archive-date=27 June 2022}}
* {{cite news |last=Kulchytsky |first=Stanislav |author-link=:uk:Кульчицький Станіслав Владиславович |date=17 February 2007 |title=Holodomor 1932–1933 rr. yak henotsyd: prohalyny u dokazovii bazi |script-title=uk:Голодомор 1932 — 1933 рр. як геноцид: прогалини у доказовій базі |language=uk |trans-title=Holodomor 1932–1933 as genocide: gaps in the evidence |work=] |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/uk/article/podrobici/golodomor-1932-1933-rr-yak-genocid-progalini-u-dokazoviy-bazi-1 |access-date=19 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202145734/https://day.kyiv.ua/uk/article/podrobici/golodomor-1932-1933-rr-yak-genocid-progalini-u-dokazoviy-bazi-1 |archive-date=2 December 2020 |url-status=live}} ( {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501113747/https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/close/holodomor-1932-33-genocide-gaps-evidential-basis-0 |date=1 May 2022}})
* {{cite book |last1=Kulchytsky |first1=Stanislav |author-link=:uk:Кульчицький Станіслав Владиславович |script-title=uk:гoлoд 1932-1933 pp. в Україні як геноцид: мовою документів, очима свідків |title=Holod 1932-1933 pp. v Ukrayini yak henotsyd: movoyu dokumentiv, ochyma svidkiv |trans-title=Famine 1932-1933 pp. in Ukraine as genocide: in the language of documents, through the eyes of witnesses |url=https://shron2.chtyvo.org.ua/Stanislav_Kulchytskyi/Holod_1932-1933_pp_v_Ukpaini_iak_henotsyd_movoiu_dokumentiv_ochyma_svidkiv.pdf?PHPSESSID=dq1od2p7iq2j66s39rbk283pr4 |date=2008 |language=uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521114821/https://shron2.chtyvo.org.ua/Stanislav_Kulchytskyi/Holod_1932-1933_pp_v_Ukpaini_iak_henotsyd_movoiu_dokumentiv_ochyma_svidkiv.pdf?PHPSESSID=dq1od2p7iq2j66s39rbk283pr4 |archive-date=21 May 2023 |access-date=17 May 2023 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Kulchytsky |first1=Stanislav |author1-link=:uk:Кульчицький Станіслав Владиславович |title=The Ukrainian Holodomor against the Background of the Communist Onslaught, 1929–1938 |url=https://holodomor.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Kulchytsky-Holodomor-and-Communist-Onslaught.pdf |date=September 2017 |journal=Holodomor Research and Education Consortium |translator1-first=Ali |translator1-last=Kinsella |translator2-first=Marta D. |translator2-last=Olynyk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111015422/https://holodomor.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Kulchytsky-Holodomor-and-Communist-Onslaught.pdf |archive-date=11 January 2021}}
* {{Cite web |last1=Kulchytsky |first1=Stanislav |author-link=:uk:Кульчицький Станіслав Владиславович |url=https://localhistory.org.ua/videos/bez-bromu/golodomor-stanislav-kulchitskii/ |script-title=uk:Чому відбувся Голодомор - Станіслав Кульчицький |title=Chomu vidbuvsya Holodomor - Stanislav Kulʹchytsʹkyy |trans-title=Why did the Holodomor happen - Stanislav Kulchytsky |date=27 November 2020 |access-date=27 April 2022 |language=uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202162453/https://localhistory.org.ua/videos/bez-bromu/golodomor-stanislav-kulchitskii/ |archive-date=2 December 2021}}
* {{cite conference |last1=Kuśnierz |first1=Robert |date=21 November 2013 |title=Post-holodomor Population Resettlements to Ukraine (1933–1934) |conference=45th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies |location=Boston |url=http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/6/4/7/0/5/p647057_index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109000523/http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/6/4/7/0/5/p647057_index.html |archive-date=9 January 2016}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Kuśnierz |first1=Robert |title=Przesiedlenia ludności na Ukrainie w latach 1933–1934 |trans-title=Resettlement of population in Ukraine in the years 1933–1934 |language=pl |journal={{ill|Dzieje Najnowsze|pl}} |date=10 April 2018 |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=51–68 |doi=10.12775/DN.2018.1.03 |doi-access=free}}
* {{cite web |author=Kyiv Post |author-link=Kyiv Post |title=Harper accused of exaggerating Ukrainian genocide death toll |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/montreal-gazette-harper-accused-of-exaggerating-uk-88179.html |language=en |publisher=], ] |date=30 October 2010 |access-date=20 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314210648/https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/montreal-gazette-harper-accused-of-exaggerating-uk-88179.html |archive-date=14 March 2022 |url-status=live}}
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* {{Cite web |last1=Lemkin |first1=Raphael |date=26 November 2010 |author1-link=Raphael Lemkin |url=https://www.istpravda.com.ua/columns/2010/11/26/6400/ |trans-title=Holodomor was a genocide, according to the author of the term |language=uk |script-title=uk:Голодомор був геноцидом. Так вважав автор терміну "геноцид" |title=Holodomor buv henotsydom. Tak vvazhav avtor terminu "henotsyd" |access-date=9 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124194825/https://www.istpravda.com.ua/columns/2010/11/26/6400/ |archive-date=24 January 2011}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Leonavičius |first1=Vylius |last2=Ozolinčiūtė |first2=Eglė |date=1 December 2019 |title=The Transformation of the Soviet Agriculture |journal={{ill|Sociologija: Mintis Ir Veiksmas|lt}} |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=93–131 |doi=10.15388/SocMintVei.2019.1.10 |s2cid=213399789 |doi-access=free}}
* {{cite news |last1=Levy |first1=Clifford J. |title=A New View of a Famine That Killed Millions |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/world/europe/16kiev.html |work=] |date=16 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804005058/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/world/europe/16kiev.html |archive-date=4 August 2022 |access-date=24 February 2017 |url-status=live}}
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* {{cite web |last1=Loroff |first1=Nicole |last2=Vincent |first2=Jordan |last3=Kuryliw |first3=Valentina |date=2015 |title=Holodomor – Denial and Silences: The Cover-Up: Denials, Dismissals and Silences |url=https://education.holodomor.ca/teaching-materials/holodomor-denial-silences/ |access-date=14 February 2022 |website=HREC Education |publisher=] |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214040645/https://education.holodomor.ca/teaching-materials/holodomor-denial-silences/ |archive-date=14 February 2022 |url-status=live}}
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* {{cite book |last=Mace |first=James E. |author-link=James Mace |chapter=Soviet Man-Made Famine in Ukraine |pages=93–126 |editor1-last=Totten |editor1-first=Samuel |editor2-last=Parsons |editor2-first=William S. |editor3-last=Charny |editor3-first=Israel W. |year=2004 |title=Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Ef8Hrx8Cd0C&pg=PA93 |location=London |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-415-94430-4}}
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* {{cite book |last=Snyder |first=Timothy |author-link=Timothy D. Snyder |year=2010 |title=Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin |location=New York |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-465-00239-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=maEfAQAAQBAJ}}
* {{cite news |last=Sokur |first=Vasily |date=21 November 2008 |title=Vyyavlennym vo vremya golodomora lyudoyedam khodivshiye po selam meditsinskiye rabotniki davali otravlennyye "primanki" – kusok myasa ili khleba |script-title=ru:Выявленным во время голодомора людоедам ходившие по селам медицинские работники давали отравленные "приманки" – кусок мяса или хлеба |trans-title=Cannibals identified during the Holodomor were given poisoned "baits" by medical workers walking around the villages – a piece of meat or bread |quote=The author suggests that never in the history of mankind was cannibalism so widespread as during the Holodomor. |url=http://fakty.ua/32809-vyyavlennym-vo-vremya-golodomora-lyudoedam-hodivshie-po-selam-medicinskie-rabotniki-davali-otravlennye-primanki---kusok-myasa-ili-hleba |newspaper=] |access-date=27 July 2012 |language=ru |url-status=live |archive-date=20 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120104443/http://fakty.ua/32809-vyyavlennym-vo-vremya-golodomora-lyudoedam-hodivshie-po-selam-medicinskie-rabotniki-davali-otravlennye-primanki---kusok-myasa-ili-hleba}}
* {{cite journal |last=Soldatenko |first=Valerii |year=2003 |trans-title=The starvation of '33: subjective thoughts about objective processes |journal=] |location=Kyiv |issue=24, 28 June – 4 July |language=uk, ru |url=https://dt.ua/SOCIUM/golodniy_tridtsyat_tretiy_subektivni_dumki_pro_obektivni_protsesi.html |script-title=uk:Голодний тридцять третій суб'єктивні думки про об'єктивні процеси |title=Holodnyy trydtsyatʹ tretiy sub'yektyvni dumky pro ob'yektyvni protsesy}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
* {{cite book |last1=Sosnovy |first1=Stepan |editor1-last=Pidhainy |editor1-first=Semen O. |chapter=The Truth about the Famine |title=The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book. Volume 1: Testimonials. |date=1953 |publisher=The Basilian Press, for Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian Communist Terror. |location=Toronto |author1-link=Stepan Sosnovy |format=pdf |asin=B000EGMA4O |url=https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/12606/file.pdf#page=234 |volume=1 |translator1-last=Oreletsky |translator1-first=Alexander |translator2-last=Prychodko |translator2-first=Olga |access-date=1 December 2022 |page=222 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128070224/https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/12606/file.pdf#page=234 |archive-date=28 November 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite news |last1=Stephens |first1=Katharine |title=11 million, not 6 million, died in the Holocaust |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/11-million-not-6-million-died-in-the-holocaust/2017/05/26/6fdcc270-3f1c-11e7-b29f-f40ffced2ddb_story.html |newspaper=] |date=26 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202134430/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/11-million-not-6-million-died-in-the-holocaust/2017/05/26/6fdcc270-3f1c-11e7-b29f-f40ffced2ddb_story.html |archive-date=2 February 2022 |access-date=1 April 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Daniel |date=24 November 2022 |title=Irish Senate recognizes Ukrainian genocide in the 1930s |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/irish-senate-recognizes-ukrainian-genocide-in-the-1930s/ar-AA14wfiY |access-date=25 November 2022 |website=News 360 |language=en-US |agency=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125155243/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/irish-senate-recognizes-ukrainian-genocide-in-the-1930s/ar-AA14wfiY |archive-date=25 November 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{Cite book |last=Suny |first=Ronald Grigor |author-link=Ronald Grigor Suny |title=Red Flag Unfurled: History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution |publisher=] |year=2017 |pages=94–95 |isbn=978-1-78478-564-2 |quote=Most scholars rejected this claim, seeing the famine as following from a badly conceived and miscalculated policy of excessive requisitioning of grain, but not as directed specifically against ethnic Ukrainians.}}
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* {{cite journal |last=Tauger |first=Mark B. |title=The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933 |journal=] |volume=50 |issue=1 |date=Spring 1991 |pages=70–89 |doi=10.2307/2500600 |jstor=2500600 |s2cid=163767073}}
* {{cite journal |last=Tauger |first=Mark B. |date=January 2001 |title=Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931–1933 |journal=The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies |publisher=] |editor1-last=Chase |editor1-first=William |editor2-last=Donnorummo |editor2-first=Bob |editor3-last=Linden |editor3-first=Ronald H. |issue=1506 |page=67 |doi=10.5195/CBP.2001.89 |doi-access=free |issn=0889-275X |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824073308/http://www.as.wvu.edu/history/Faculty/Tauger/Tauger%2C%20Natural%20Disaster%20and%20Human%20Actions.pdf |archive-date=24 August 2012 |url=http://www.as.wvu.edu/history/Faculty/Tauger/Tauger,%20Natural%20Disaster%20and%20Human%20Actions.pdf}}
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* {{cite web |author=Tehran Times |author-link=Tehran Times |date=20 February 2021 |title="Holodomor" reveals how Stalin starved millions in Ukrainian famine |url=https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/458345/Holodomor-reveals-how-Stalin-starved-millions-in-Ukrainian |access-date=22 February 2021 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222065203/https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/458345/Holodomor-reveals-how-Stalin-starved-millions-in-Ukrainian |archive-date=22 February 2021 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite conference |last=Thevenin |first=Etienne |date=29 June 2005 |title=France, Germany and Austria: Facing the famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine |url=http://ncua.inform-decisions.com/eng/files/EThevenin.pdf |conference=James Mace Memorial Panel, IAUS Congress, Donetsk, Ukraine |access-date=20 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314210530/http://ncua.inform-decisions.com/eng/files/EThevenin.pdf |archive-date=14 March 2022}}
* {{cite book |title=Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts |page=93 |isbn= 978-0-415-94429-8 |last1=Totten |first1=Samuel |last2=Parsons |first2=William S. |last3=Charny |first3=Israel W. |year=2004|publisher=Routledge}}
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* {{cite web |author=Ucrainica Research |date=2009 |title=International Recognition of the Holodomor |url=http://www.holodomoreducation.org/news.php/news/4 |website=Holodomor Education |access-date=26 December 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231045936/http://www.holodomoreducation.org/news.php/news/4 |archive-date=31 December 2015}}
* {{cite web |author=Ukraine National Bank |ref={{sfnref|Nat.BankUkraine2007}} |title=Commemorative Coins "Holodomor – Genocide of the Ukrainian People |date=17 December 2007 |url=http://www.bank.gov.ua/Engl/Bank_coin/Yuv_mon/Coins/Other/Golodomor.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080108111037/http://www.bank.gov.ua/Engl/Bank_coin/Yuv_mon/Coins/Other/Golodomor.htm |archive-date=8 January 2008}}
* {{cite web |author=Ukraine National Radio |ref={{sfnref|Nat.RadioUkraine2007}} |title=Ceremonial events to commemorate Holodomor victims to be held in Kyiv for three days |date=23 November 2007 |url=http://nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=148&listid=55808 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110216070228/http://nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=148&listid=55808 |archive-date=16 February 2011}}
* {{cite journal |author=Ukrainian Weekly |date=14 July 2002 |title=Editorial: Famine denial |url=http://www.ukrweekly.com/archive/pdf3/2002/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_2002-28.pdf |journal=] |volume=70 |issue=28 |page=6 |access-date=22 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203022545/http://www.ukrweekly.com/archive/pdf3/2002/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_2002-28.pdf |archive-date=3 December 2013 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |date=16 November 2003 |author=Ukrainian Weekly |title=30 U.N. member-states sign joint declaration on Great Famine |url=http://www.ukrweekly.com/archive/pdf3/2003/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_2003-46.pdf |journal=] |volume=71 |issue=46 |pages=1, 20 |access-date=22 July 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303221638/http://www.ukrweekly.com/archive/pdf3/2003/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_2003-46.pdf |archive-date=3 March 2014}}
* {{cite web |author=UN signatory nations |title=Joint statement by the delegations of Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Egypt, Georgia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nauru, Pakistan, Qatar, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates and the United States of America on the 70th anniversary of the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor) |date=7 November 2003 |url=https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/505743 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103113548/https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/505743 |archive-date=3 January 2021 |access-date=13 July 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |author=Ukrainian Canadian Congress |author-link=Ukrainian Canadian Congress |title=Holodomor |url=http://www.ucc.sk.ca/oldsite/new/2008/Holodomor/index.htm |publisher=Ucc.sk.ca |date=2008 |access-date=6 May 2015 |url-status=live |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305115506/http://www.ucc.sk.ca/oldsite/new/2008/Holodomor/index.htm}}
* {{cite web |author=Ukrainian Canadian Congress |date=3 June 2010 |author-link=Ukrainian Canadian Congress |title=Quebec Passes Bill Recognizing Holodomor as a Genocide |url=http://www.ucc.ca/2010/06/03/quebec-passes-bill-recognizing-holodomor-as-a-genocide/ |access-date=22 July 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212134207/http://www.ucc.ca/2010/06/03/quebec-passes-bill-recognizing-holodomor-as-a-genocide/ |archive-date=12 February 2013}}
* {{cite web |author=Ukrainian Canadian Congress |author-link=Ukrainian Canadian Congress |date=26 June 2020 |title=National Holodomor Education Committee |url=https://www.ucc.ca/about-ucc/committees/national-holodomor-education-committee/ |access-date=8 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220316120225/https://www.ucc.ca/about-ucc/committees/national-holodomor-education-committee/ |archive-date=16 March 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{Cite news |author=Ukrainska Pravda |date=4 October 2018 |author-link=Ukrainska Pravda |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2018/10/4/7194127/ |script-title=uk:Сенат США визнав Голодомор геноцидом українського народу |title=Senat SSHA vyznav Holodomor henotsydom ukrayinsʹkoho narodu |trans-title=The US Senate recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people |language=uk |work=] |access-date=4 October 2018 |archive-date=4 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004173557/https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2018/10/4/7194127/}}
* {{cite news |author=Ukrinform |date=23 November 2022a |author-link=Ukrinform |title=Pope honors victims of Holodomor, aggression against Ukraine |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3620257-pope-honors-victims-of-holodomor-aggression-against-ukraine.html |access-date=23 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221123120058/https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3620257-pope-honors-victims-of-holodomor-aggression-against-ukraine.html |archive-date=23 November 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite news |author=Ukrinform |date=24 November 2022c |author-link=Ukrinform |title=Romania recognizes Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Ukraine as genocide |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3621132-romania-recognizes-holodomor-of-19321933-in-ukraine-as-genocide.html |access-date=24 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124135059/https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3621132-romania-recognizes-holodomor-of-19321933-in-ukraine-as-genocide.html |archive-date=24 November 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite news |author=Ukrinform |date=25 November 2022d |author-link=Ukrinform |title=Poll: 93% of Ukrainians see Holodomor as genocide |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3622104-poll-93-of-ukrainians-see-holodomor-as-genocide.html |access-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125202547/https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3622104-poll-93-of-ukrainians-see-holodomor-as-genocide.html |archive-date=25 November 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite news |author=Ukrinform |date=15 December 2022e |author-link=Ukrinform |title=European Parliament recognizes Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainian people |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3634804-european-parliament-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainian-people.html |access-date=15 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215125012/https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3634804-european-parliament-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide-against-ukrainian-people.html |archive-date=15 December 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |ref={{sfnref|US Commission Report vol.1}} |author=U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine |year=1988 |title=Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine 1932–1933 Vol.1:Report to Congress |access-date=27 July 2012 |url=http://genocidecurriculum.org/category/curriculum-resources/general-archive/united-states-congressional-commission-on-the-ukrainian-famine/1report-to-congress/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070107194737/http://genocidecurriculum.org/category/curriculum-resources/general-archive/united-states-congressional-commission-on-the-ukrainian-famine/1report-to-congress/ |archive-date=7 January 2007 |location=Washington,&nbsp;D.C. |publisher=] |author-link=U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine |page= |editor1-last=Mace |editor1-first=James Earnest |editor1-link=James Mace |editor2-last=Samilenko |editor2-first=Olga |editor3-last=Pechenuk |editor3-first=Walter |volume=1 of 3}}
* {{cite book |ref=US Commission OralHist |author=U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine |volume=1-3 |title=Investigation of the Ukrainian famine, 1932–1933: Oral History Project of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine |date=1990 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |editor1-last=Mace |editor1-first=James Earnest |editor2-last=Heretz |editor2-first=Leonid |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1u5FAAAAYAAJ |author-link=U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine |editor1-link=James Mace |access-date=21 March 2023 |archive-date=8 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408064442/https://books.google.com/books?id=1u5FAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live}}
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* {{cite web |author=USSR Census |date=1939 |website=] Data Library Service |title=USSR Census of 1939 |url=http://datalib.chass.utoronto.ca/codebooks/utm/ussr_1939.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706211443/http://datalib.chass.utoronto.ca/codebooks/utm/ussr_1939.htm |archive-date=6 July 2011}}
* {{cite book |last=Uytkroft |first=S. |year=2001 |script-chapter=ru:О демографических свидетельствах трагедии советской деревни в 1931–1933 гг. |chapter=O demograficheskikh svidetel'stvakh tragedii sovetskoy derevni v 1931–1933 gg. |trans-chapter=On demographic evidence of the tragedy of the Soviet village in 1931–1933 |editor=V.P. Danilov |display-editors=etal |script-title=ru:Трагедия советской деревни: Коллективизация и раскулачивание 1927–1939 гг.: Документы и материалы |title=Tragediya sovetskoy derevni: Kollektivizatsiya i raskulachivaniye 1927–1939 gg.: Dokumenty i materialy |trans-title=The Tragedy of the Soviet Village: Collectivization and Dekulakization 1927–39: Documents and Materials |volume=3 |location=Moscow |publisher=] |isbn=978-5-8243-0225-7 |language=ru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080320010655/http://lj.streamclub.ru/history/tragedy.html |archive-date=20 March 2008 |url=http://lj.streamclub.ru/history/tragedy.html}}
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* {{cite book |last1=Werth |first1=Nicolas |date=2012 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232116.013.0020 |editor-last1=Bloxham |editor-last2=Moses |editor-first1=Donald |editor-first2=A. Dirk |chapter=Mass Deportations, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocidal Politics in the Later Russian Empire and the USSR |title=The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies |pages=386–406 |publisher=] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xCHMFHQRNtYC&pg=PA386 |isbn=978-0-19-161361-6 |via=] |access-date=13 July 2022 |archive-date=13 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713123507/https://books.google.com/books?id=xCHMFHQRNtYC&pg=PA386 |url-status=live}}
* {{citation |mode=cs1 |last=Wheatcroft |first=Stephen G. |author-link=Stephen G. Wheatcroft |date=7 December 2000 |title=A Note on Demographic Data as an Indicator of the Tragedy of the Soviet Village, 1931–33 (draft) |url=http://www.melgrosh.unimelb.edu.au/documents/SGW%20-%20Note%20on%20Demographic%20Data.pdf |access-date=31 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702185709/http://www.melgrosh.unimelb.edu.au/documents/SGW%20-%20Note%20on%20Demographic%20Data.pdf |archive-date=2 July 2013}}
* {{cite book |last=Wheatcroft |first=Stephen G. |author-link=Stephen G. Wheatcroft |year=2001 |chapter=Current knowledge of the level and nature of mortality in the Ukrainian famine of 1931–3 |chapter-url=https://melgrosh.unimelb.edu.au/documents/SGW-%7B%7BTypo%7CUkra%7Cnian%7D%7DFamine_mortality.pdf |editor1-first=V. |editor1-last=Vasil'ev |editor2-first=Y. |editor2-last=Shapovala |title=Komandiri velikogo golodu: Poizdki V.Molotova I L.Kaganovicha v Ukrainu ta na Pivnichnii Kavkaz, 1932–1933 rr. |location=Kyiv |publisher=Geneza |access-date=8 September 2023 |archive-date=12 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712050441/https://melgrosh.unimelb.edu.au/documents/SGW-%7B%7BTypo%7CUkra%7Cnian%7D%7DFamine_mortality.pdf |url-status=bot: unknown}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Wheatcroft |first1=Stephen G. |author1-link=Stephen G. Wheatcroft |year=2018 |title=The Turn Away from Economic Explanations for Soviet Famines |journal=] |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=465–469 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326562364 |doi=10.1017/S0960777318000358 |doi-access=free |hdl=10536/DRO/DU:30116832 |hdl-access=free}}
* {{cite book |last=Wilson |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Wilson (historian) |year=2002 |title=The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4f324_LVBL4C |edition=2nd |location=New Haven,&nbsp;CT |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-300-09309-4 |access-date=18 March 2016 |archive-date=19 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219140218/https://books.google.com/books?id=4f324_LVBL4C |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Wolowyna |first1=Oleh |title=A Demographic Framework for the 1932–1934 Famine in the Soviet Union |journal=] |date=2 October 2021 |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=501–526 |doi=10.1080/14623528.2020.1834741 |s2cid=226316468}}
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* {{Cite web |last1=Yanchenko |first1=Halyna |date=2 December 2022 |author1-link=Halyna Yanchenko |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/columns/2022/12/2/7378948/ |script-title=uk:Бундестаг визнав Голодомор геноцидом українців. Чому сталися ці зміни у німецькій політиці? |title=Bundestah vyznav Holodomor henotsydom ukrayintsiv. Chomu stalysya tsi zminy u nimetsʹkiy politytsi? |trans-title=The Bundestag recognized the Holodomor as a genocide of Ukrainians. Why did these changes in German politics happen? |access-date=23 December 2022 |language=uk |newspaper=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221223151736/https://www.pravda.com.ua/columns/2022/12/2/7378948/ |archive-date=23 December 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite news |last=Yefimenko |first=Hennadiy |date=5 November 2021 |title=More is not better. The deleterious effects of artificially inflated Holodomor death tolls |url=https://euromaidanpress.com/2021/11/05/more-is-not-better-the-deleterious-effects-of-artificially-inflated-holodomor-death-tolls/ |work=] |translator1-last=Chraibi |translator1-first=Christine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501095158/https://euromaidanpress.com/2021/11/05/more-is-not-better-the-deleterious-effects-of-artificially-inflated-holodomor-death-tolls/ |archive-date=1 May 2022 |access-date=28 March 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |last1=Yushchenko |first1=Viktor |author-link1=Viktor Yushchenko |title=Ukrainian President Yushchenko: Yushchenko's Address before Joint Session of U.S. Congress |url=http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/data/print/173.html |work=Official Website of President of Ukraine |date=6 April 2005 |access-date=7 September 2012 |archive-date=6 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006021607/http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/data/print/173.html}}
* {{cite web |last=Yushchenko |first=Viktor |trans-title=DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE No. 868/2006: On the commemoration of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Famine and Political Repression in 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928204155/http://www.prezident.gov.ua/documents/5087.html |date=12 October 2006 |publisher=] |archive-date=28 September 2007 |url=http://www.prezident.gov.ua/documents/5087.html |language=uk |script-title=uk:УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ № 868/2006: Про відзначення у 2006 році Дня пам'яті жертв голодоморів та політичних репресій |title=UKAZ PREZYDENTA UKRAYINY № 868/2006: Pro vidznachennya u 2006 rotsi Dnya pam'yati zhertv holodomoriv ta politychnykh represiy}}
* {{cite news |last=Yushchenko |first=Viktor |author-link=Viktor Yushchenko |date=27 November 2007 |title=Holodomor |url=http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/8296.html |access-date=21 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908084945/http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/8296.html |archive-date=8 September 2008 |newspaper=]}}
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* {{Cite web |author=Zaxid |url=https://zaxid.net/vihovannya_golodom_n1511218 |script-title=uk:Виховання голодом |title=Vykhovannya holodom |trans-title=Education by hunger |website=Zaxid.net |date=27 November 2020 |access-date=27 April 2022 |language=uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201209021402/https://zaxid.net/vihovannya_golodom_n1511218 |archive-date=9 December 2020}}
* {{cite web |author=ZIK (information agency) |title=Schoolchildren to study in detail about Holodomor and OUN-UPA |url=http://zik.ua/en/news/2009/06/11/184328 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422023215/http://zik.ua/en/news/2009/06/11/184328 |archive-date=22 April 2012 |publisher=ZIK–Western Information Agency |date=12 June 2009 |access-date=22 July 2012}}
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== Further reading ==
{{See also|Bibliography of Ukrainian history|Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union|Bibliography of Genocide studies}}


=== Declarations and legal acts ===
* Stanislav Kulchytsky, , October 2005.
* ]. 19 April 1988. "" (Report to Congress).
* {{en icon}} Stanislav Kulchytsky, ''"Why did Stalin exterminate the Ukrainians? Comprehending the Holodomor. The position of Soviet historians"'' - Six part series from '']: , , , , , ;
* ]. 2003. ]
* {{ru icon}}/{{uk icon}} Valeriy Soldatenko, ''"A starved 1933: subjectove thoughts on objective processes"'', ], June 28 - July 4, 2003. Available online and .
* {{ru icon}}/{{uk icon}} Stanislav Kulchytsky's articles in ], Kiev, Ukraine"
**''"How many of us perish in Holodomor on 1933"'', November 23-29, 2002. Available online and .
**''"Reasons of the 1933 famine in Ukraine. Through the pages of one almost forgotten book"'' Augist 16-22, 2003. Available online and .
**''"Reasons of the 1933 famine in Ukraine-2"'', October 4-10, 2003. Available online and .
**''"Demographic lossed in Ukrainian in the twentieth century"'', October 2-8, 2004. Available online and .


=== Books and articles ===
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* {{cite book |last1=Ammende |first1=Ewald |title=Human life in Russia |date=2006 |publisher=Hesperides Press |location=London |isbn=978-1-4067-3769-1 |author-link1=Ewald Ammende |orig-date=Originally published: London: Allen & Unwin, 1936}}
* {{cite book |last=Bruski |first=Jan Jacek |title=Hołodomor 1932–1933. Wielki Głód na Ukrainie w dokumentach polskiej dyplomacji i wywiadu |trans-title=Holodomor 1932–1933. The Great Famine in Ukraine in the documents of Polish diplomacy and intelligence |publisher=Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych |location=Warsaw |year=2008 |language=pl |isbn=978-83-89607-56-0}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Boriak |first1=Hennadii |title=The Publication of Sources on the History of the 1932–1933 Famine-Genocide: History, Current State, and Prospects |journal=Harvard Ukrainian Studies |publisher=] |volume=25 |issue=3/4 |date=2001 |pages=167–186 |jstor=41036832 |pmid=20030020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200046/http://history.org.ua/LiberUA/Book/USF/3.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url=http://history.org.ua/LiberUA/Book/USF/3.pdf}}
* {{cite journal |last=Boriak |first=Hennadii |title=Holodomor Archives and Sources: The State of the Art |journal=The Harriman Review |volume=16 |issue=2 |date=November 2008 |page=30 |doi=10.7916/d8-ba18-wc92 |doi-access=free}}
* {{cite journal |last=Conquest |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Conquest |year=1999 |title=Comment on Wheatcroft |journal=] |volume=51 |issue=8 |pages=1479–1483 |jstor=153839 |doi=10.1080/09668139998426}}
* {{cite book |title=Famines in European Economic History: The last great European famines reconsidered |editor1-last=Curran |editor1-first=Declan |editor2-last=Luciuk |editor2-first=Lubomyr |editor3-last=Newby |editor3-first=Andrew |isbn=978-0-415-65681-8 |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |location= |series=Routledge Explorations in Economic History}}
* {{cite book |last1=Davies |first1=Robert |author1-link=R. W. Davies |title=The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 1: The Socialist Offensive: The Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture, 1929–1930|isbn=978-0-674-81480-6 |date=1980 |publisher=] |location=Cambridge, MA}}
* {{cite book |last=Dolot |first=Miron |title= Who killed them and why?: in remembrance of those killed in the Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine |isbn=978-0-9609822-1-9 |date=1984 |series=Ukrainian Studies Series |publisher=] |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}
* {{cite book |last=Dolot |first=Miron |year=1985 |title=Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust |url=https://archive.org/details/executionbyhunge00dolo_0 |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=] |ref=Dolot1985 |isbn=978-0-393-30416-9}}
* {{cite book |last1=Dushnyk |first1=Walter |title=50 years ago: the famine holocaust in Ukraine: Terror and Human Misery as Instruments of Soviet Russian Imperialism |isbn= |date=1983 |publisher=World Congress of Free Ukrainians |location=Toronto |editor1-link= |url=https://chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Dushnyk_Volodymyr/50_years_ago_the_famine_holocaust_in_Ukraine_Terror_and_human_misery_as_instruments_of_Soviet_Russia.pdf |access-date=17 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221217052632/https://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Dushnyk_Volodymyr/50_years_ago_the_famine_holocaust_in_Ukraine_Terror_and_human_misery_as_instruments_of_Soviet_Russia.pdf?PHPSESSID=3ads1phtg6n7ifaa9t74gfkj35 |archive-date=17 December 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |last1=Falk |first1=Barbara |trans-title=Soviet cities in the famine of 1932/33. State food policy and everyday urban life |title=Sowjetische Städte in der Hungersnot 1932/33. Staatliche Ernährungspolitik und städtisches Alltagsleben |series=Beiträge zur Geschichte Osteuropas |volume=38 |language=de |isbn=978-3-412-10105-3 |date=2005 |publisher=Böhlau Verlag |location=Cologne}}
* {{cite book |last1=Fürst |first1=Juliane |title=Stalin's Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-161450-7}}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Graziosi |editor1-first=Andrea |date=1991|trans-title=Letters from Kharkiv: The famine in the Ukraine and in the North Caucasus in the reports of Italian diplomats, 1932-33 |title=Lettere da Kharkov: la carestia in Ucraina e nel Caucaso del Nord nei rapporti dei diplomatici italiani, 1932–33 |isbn=978-88-06-12182-2 |language=it |publisher=Einaudi |location=Torino}}
* {{cite book |author=Great Britain Foreign Office |title=The Foreign Office and the Famine: British Documents on Ukraine and the Great Famine of 1932–1933 |editor1-last=Carynnyk |editor1-first=Marco |editor2-last=Luciuk |editor2-first=Lubomyr Y. |editor3-last=Kordan |editor3-first=Bohdan S. |others=foreword by ] |isbn=978-0-919642-31-7 |date=1988 |publisher=Limestone Press |location=Kingston, Ontario |url=https://archive.org/details/Britain-and-Holodomor-Docs}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Gregorovich |first1=Andrew |title=Black Famine in Ukraine 1932–33: A Struggle for Existence |journal=Forum: A Ukrainian Review |location=Scranton |issue=24 |date=1974 |url=http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/gregorovich/ |access-date=17 December 2022 |via=InfoUkes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926024733/http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/gregorovich/ |archive-date=26 September 2022 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |last1=Halii |first1=Mykola |title=Organized Famine in Ukraine, 1932–1933 |date=1963 |publisher=Ukrainian Research and Information Institute |location=Chicago}}
* {{cite book |last1=Hlushanytsia |first1=Pavlo |trans-title=The Third World War by Pavlo Hlushanitsa |script-title=uk:Глушаниця П. Третя світова війна Павла Глушаниці |title=Hlushanytsya P. Tretya svitova viyna Pavla Hlushanytsi |publisher=Anabasis Magazine |location=Toronto |date=1986 |translator1-last=Moroz |translator1-first=Vera |language=en, uk |pages=91–187 |url=https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/4493/file.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310073433/https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/4493/file.pdf |archive-date=10 March 2022 |url-status=live |access-date=17 December 2022}}
* {{cite book |script-title=uk:Холод на Україні, 1932–1933: вибрані статї |title=Kholod na Ukrayini, 1932–1933: vybrani statyi |trans-title=Holodomor in Ukraine, 1932–1933: selected articles |language=uk |editor1-last=Karatnytska |editor1-first=Nadia |date=1985 |publisher=Suchasnist |location=New York}}
* {{cite book |last1=Hryshko |first1=Vasyl |title=The Ukrainian Holocaust of 1933 |editor1-last=Carynnyk |editor1-first=Marco |isbn=978-0-9691830-1-3 |date=1983 |orig-date=1976 |publisher=Bahrianyi Foundation |location=Toronto |ref=Hryshko1983}}
* {{cite book |author=Institute of National Remembrance |author-link1=Institute of National Remembrance |title=Holodomor. The Great Famine in Ukraine 1932–1933 |editor1-last=Bednarek |editor1-first=Jerzy |editor2-last=Bohunov |editor2-first=Serhiy |editor3-last=Kokin |editor3-first=Serhiy |others=additional editors: Petro Kulakovsky, Marcin Majewski, Piotr Mierecki, Zbigniew Nawrocki, Yuriy Shapoval, Jędrzej Tucholski, Victor Tykhomyrov |url=http://history.org.ua/LiberUA/978-83-7629-077-5/978-83-7629-077-5.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405220650/http://history.org.ua/LiberUA/978-83-7629-077-5/978-83-7629-077-5.pdf |archive-date=5 April 2022 |language=en |publisher=Ministry of Interior and Administration, Republic of Poland |location=Warsaw |isbn=978-83-7629-077-5 |date=2009 |translator1-last=Serówka |translator1-first=Dariusz}}
* {{cite book |date=1990 |title=International Commission of Inquiry into the 1932–33 Famine in Ukraine |publisher= World Congress of Free Ukrainians |location=Toronto}}
** {{cite book |ref={{sfnref|1988IntCommissionFinalRep}} |title=Final report |date=1990 |publisher=World Congress of Free Ukrainians |location=Toronto |quote=] |url=http://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/Holodomor/Holodomor-Commission.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001225745/http://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/Holodomor/Holodomor-Commission.pdf |archive-date=1 October 2008}}
** {{cite book|title=Brussels, Belgium Proceedings , 23–27 May 1988 |quote=]}}
** {{cite book |title=New York City Proceedings , 21 October – 5 November 1988.|quote=]}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kalynyk |first1=Oleksa |date=1955 |title=Communism, the enemy of mankind: documents about the methods and practise of Russian Bolshevik occupation in Ukraine |oclc=5170037 |asin=B0007J7SR2 |publisher=Ukrainian Youth Association in Great Britain |location=London}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kostiuk |first1=Hryhory |date=1960 |title= Stalinist rule in Ukraine: a study of the decade of mass terror, 1929–1939 |series=Series I, No. 47 |asin=B005FGNR9K |publisher=Institute for the Study of the USSR |location=Munich}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kotkin |first1=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Kotkin |title=Stalin (volume 2): Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 |date=2017b |publisher=Penguin Press |location=New York |isbn=978-1-59420-380-0}}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Kovalenko |editor1-first=Liudmyla. B. |editor2-last=Maniak |editor2-first=Volodymyr A. |date=1991 |language=uk |trans-title=33rd Famine. People's book-memorial |title=33-y-Holod. Narodna knyha-memorial |script-title=uk:33-й-Голод. Народна книга-меморіал |isbn=978-966-7891-95-4 |publisher=Radians'kyj pys'mennyk |location=Kyiv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121024508/http://history.org.ua/LiberUA/5-333-00875-2/5-333-00875-2.pdf |archive-date=21 January 2022 |url=http://history.org.ua/LiberUA/5-333-00875-2/5-333-00875-2.pdf}}
* {{cite book |last=Kowalski |first=Ludwik |title=Hell on Earth: Brutality and Violence Under the Stalinist Regime |publisher=Wasteland Press |year=2011 |url=http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/father2/introduction.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004115025/http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/father2/introduction.html |isbn=978-1-60047-232-9 |archive-date=4 October 2011 |orig-date=2008 |author1-link=Ludwik Kowalski}}
* {{cite book |last1=Krawchenko |first1=Bohdan |title=Social change and national consciousness in twentieth-century Ukraine |publisher=] |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-312-73160-1|location= ], UK |language=en |author-link=Bohdan Krawchenko |series=St Antony's/Macmillan}}
* {{cite book |last1=Krawchenko |first1=Bohdan |title=Famine in Ukraine 1932–1933 |last2=Serbyn |first2=Roman |publisher=] |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-920862-43-8 |location=Canada |page=208 |language=en |author-link=Bohdan Krawchenko}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kuśnierz |first1=Robert |date=2005 |language=pl |trans-title=Ukraine in the years of collectivization and the Great Famine (1929–1933) |title=Ukraina w latach kolektywizacji i Wielkiego Glodu (1929–1933) |editor1-last=Marszałek |editor1-first=Adam |isbn=978-83-89588-35-7 |publisher=Wydawnictwo Naukowe Grado |location=]}}
* {{cite book |editor1-last= Leshuk |editor1-first= Leonard |date=1995 |title= Days of Famine, Nights of Terror: Firsthand Accounts of Soviet Collectivization, 1928–1934 |isbn=978-0-9706464-0-8 |oclc=35304980 |publisher=Kashtan Press|location=Kingston, Washington |translator-last1=Rueger |translator-first1=Raimund}}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Luciuk |editor1-first=Lubomyr |editor2-first=Lisa |editor2-last=Grekul |year=2008 |orig-date=1953 |title=Holodomor: Reflections on the Great Famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine |isbn=978-1-896354-33-0 |publisher=Kashtan Press}}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Luciuk |editor1-first=Lubomyr |title= Not Worthy: Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize and The New York Times |isbn=978-1-896354-34-7 |date=2004 |publisher=Kashtan Press |location=Kingston}}
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* {{cite book |last1=Makohon |first1=Pavlo |date=1983 |trans-title=Witness: memoirs of the Famine of 1933 in Ukraine |title=Witness: memoirs of the Famine of 1933 in Ukraine |isbn= |publisher=Anabasis Magazine |location=Toronto |translator1-last=Moroz |translator1-first=Vera |url=https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/1912/file.pdf |access-date=19 December 2022 |archive-date=20 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220085624/https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/1912/file.pdf |url-status=live}}
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* {{cite book |last1=Marunchak |first1=Mykhaĭlo H. |date=1985 |trans-title=The nation in the struggle for its existence: 1932–1933 in Ukraine and the diaspora |title=Нація в боротьбі за своє існування: 1932–1933 в Україні і діяспорі |language=uk |oclc=13135619 |publisher=Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences |location=Winnipeg}}
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1932–1933 human-made famine in Soviet Ukraine "Famine in Ukraine" redirects here. For other uses, see Famine in Ukraine (disambiguation).

Holodomor
Голодомор
Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933, Ukraine's capital at the time
CountrySoviet Union
LocationUkraine SSR, northern Kuban, Kazakh ASSR
Period1932–1933
Total deaths
Causes
  • Industrialization policy during the First Five Year Plan
  • Whether it was intentional is debated by scholars
ReliefForeign relief rejected by the state. 176,200 and 325,000 tons of grains provided by the state as food and seed aids between February and July 1933.
Consequences
  • Heavy population loss in Ukraine
  • Kuban Ukrainian population declined from 915,000 to 150,000 between 1926 and 1939 from various causes
  • Over 35% of Ukrainians in Kazakhstan lost in the famine

The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a human-made 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.

While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made, it remains in dispute whether the Holodomor was directed at Ukrainians and whether it constitutes a genocide, the point of contention being the absence of attested documents explicitly ordering the starvation of any area in the Soviet Union. Some historians conclude that the famine was deliberately engineered by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. Others suggest that the famine was primarily the consequence of rapid Soviet industrialisation and collectivization of agriculture. A middle position is that the initial causes of the famine were an unintentional byproduct of the process of collectivization but once it set in, starvation was selectively weaponized and the famine was "instrumentalized" and amplified against Ukrainians as a means to punish Ukrainians for resisting Soviet policies and to suppress their nationalist sentiments.

Ukraine was one of the largest grain-producing states in the USSR and was subject to unreasonably high grain quotas compared to the rest of the USSR in 1930. This caused Ukraine to be hit particularly hard by the famine. Early estimates of the death toll by scholars and government officials vary greatly. A joint statement to the United Nations signed by 25 countries in 2003 declared that 7 to 10 million died. However, current scholarship estimates a range significantly lower with 3.5 to 5 million victims. The famine's widespread impact on Ukraine persists to this day.

Public discussion of the famine was banned in the Soviet Union until the glasnost period initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s. Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by Ukraine, 33 other UN member states, and the European Parliament as a genocide against the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet government. In 2008, the Russian State Duma condemned the Soviet regime "that has neglected the lives of people for the achievement of economic and political goals".

Etymology

Holodomor literally translated from Ukrainian means "death by hunger", "killing by hunger, killing by starvation", or sometimes "murder by hunger or starvation." It is a compound of the Ukrainian holod, 'hunger', and mor, 'plague'. The expression holodom moryty means "to inflict death by hunger." The Ukrainian verb moryty (морити) means "to poison, to drive to exhaustion, or to torment." The perfective form of moryty is zamoryty, 'kill or drive to death'. In English, the Holodomor has also been referred to as the artificial famine, terror-genocide and the great famine.

It was used in print in the 1930s in Ukrainian diaspora publications in Czechoslovakia as Haladamor, and by Ukrainian immigrant organisations in the United States and Canada by 1978; in the Soviet Union, of which Ukraine was a constituent republic, any references to the famine were dismissed as anti-Soviet propaganda, even after de-Stalinization in 1956, until the declassification and publication of historical documents in the late 1980s made continued denial of the catastrophe unsustainable.

Discussion of the Holodomor became possible as part of the Soviet glasnost ("openness") policy in the 1980s. In Ukraine, the first official use of famine was in a December 1987 speech by Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, on the occasion of the republic's 70th anniversary. Another early public usage in the Soviet Union was in a February 1988 speech by Oleksiy Musiyenko, Deputy Secretary for ideological matters of the party organisation of the Kyiv branch of the Union of Soviet Writers in Ukraine.

The term holodomor may have first appeared in print in the Soviet Union on 18 July 1988, when Musiyenko's article on the topic was published. Holodomor is now an entry in the modern, two-volume dictionary of the Ukrainian language, published in 2004, described as "artificial hunger, organised on a vast scale by a criminal regime against a country's population."

According to Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, and Kai Struve, the Holodomor has been described as a "Ukrainian Holocaust". They assert that since the 1990s the term Holodomor has been widely adopted by anti-communists in order to draw parallels to the Holocaust. However this term has been criticized by some academics, as the Holocaust was a heavily documented, coordinated effort by Nazi Germany and its collaborators to eliminate certain ethnic groups such as Jews. By contrast, there is no definitive documentation that Stalin directly ordered the mass murder of Ukrainians. Barkan et al. state that the term Holodomor was "introduced and popularized by the Ukrainian diaspora in North America before Ukraine became independent" and that the term 'Holocaust' in reference to the famine "is not explained at all."

History

Scope and duration

The famine affected the Ukrainian SSR as well as the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (a part of the Ukrainian SSR at the time) in spring 1932, and from February to July 1933, with the most victims recorded in spring 1933. The consequences are evident in demographic statistics: between 1926 and 1939, the Ukrainian population increased by only 6.6%, whereas Russia and Belarus grew by 16.9% and 11.7% respectively. The number of Ukrainians as ethnicity decreased by 10%.

From the 1932 harvest, Soviet authorities were able to procure only 4.3 million tons of grain, as compared with 7.2 million tons obtained from the 1931 harvest. Rations in towns were drastically cut back, and in winter 1932–1933 and spring 1933, people in many urban areas starved. Urban workers were supplied by a rationing system and therefore could occasionally assist their starving relatives in the countryside, but rations were gradually cut. By spring 1933, urban residents also faced starvation. It is estimated 70% to 80% of all famine deaths during the Holodomor in eight analyzed Oblasts in the Soviet Union occurred in the first seven months of 1933.

The first reports of mass malnutrition and deaths from starvation emerged from two urban areas of the city of Uman, reported in January 1933 by Vinnytsia and Kyiv oblasts. By mid-January 1933, there were reports about mass "difficulties" with food in urban areas, which had been undersupplied through the rationing system, and deaths from starvation among people who were refused rations, according to the December 1932 decree of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party. By the beginning of February 1933, according to reports from local authorities and Ukrainian GPU (secret police), the most affected area was Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, which also suffered from epidemics of typhus and malaria. Odesa and Kyiv oblasts were second and third respectively. By mid-March, most of the reports of starvation originated from Kyiv Oblast.

By mid-April 1933, Kharkiv Oblast reached the top of the most affected list, while Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Vinnytsia, and Donetsk oblasts, and Moldavian SSR were next on the list. Reports about mass deaths from starvation, dated mid-May through the beginning of June 1933, originated from raions in Kyiv and Kharkiv oblasts. The "less affected" list noted Chernihiv Oblast and northern parts of Kyiv and Vinnytsia oblasts. The Central Committee of the CP(b) of Ukraine Decree of 8 February 1933 said no hunger cases should have remained untreated. The Ukrainian Weekly, which was tracking the situation in 1933, reported the difficulties in communications and the appalling situation in Ukraine.

Local authorities had to submit reports about the numbers suffering from hunger, the reasons for hunger, number of deaths from hunger, food aid provided from local sources, and centrally provided food aid required. The GPU managed parallel reporting and food assistance in the Ukrainian SSR. Many regional reports and most of the central summary reports are available from present-day central and regional Ukrainian archives.

Causes

Soviet grain collections and exports
(in thousand tons)
Year ending Collections Exports
June 1930 16081 1343
June 1931 22139 5832
June 1932 22839 4786
June 1933 18513 1607
Main article: Causes of the Holodomor

While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made, it remains in dispute whether the Holodomor was directed at Ukrainians and whether it constitutes a genocide, the point of contention being the absence of attested documents explicitly ordering the starvation of any area in the Soviet Union. Some historians conclude that the famine was deliberately engineered by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. Others suggest that the famine was primarily the consequence of rapid Soviet industrialisation and collectivization of agriculture. A middle position, held for example by historian Andrea Graziosi, is that the initial causes of the famine were an unintentional byproduct of the process of collectivization but once it set in, starvation was selectively weaponized and the famine was "instrumentalized" and amplified against Ukrainians as a means to punish Ukrainians for resisting Soviet policies and to suppress their nationalist sentiments.

Some scholars suggest that the famine was a consequence of human-made and natural factors. The most prevalent man-made factor was changes made to agriculture because of rapid industrialisation during the First Five Year Plan. There are also those who blame a systematic set of policies perpetrated by the Soviet government under Stalin designed to exterminate the Ukrainians.

Low harvest

According to historian Stephen G. Wheatcroft, the grain yield for the Soviet Union preceding the famine was a low harvest of between 55 and 60 million tons, likely in part caused by damp weather and low traction power, yet official statistics mistakenly reported a yield of 68.9 million tons. (Note that a single ton of grain is enough to feed three people for one year.) Historian Mark Tauger has suggested that drought and damp weather were causes of the low harvest. Mark Tauger suggested that heavy rains would help the harvest while Stephen Wheatcroft suggested it would hurt it which Natalya Naumenko notes as a disagreement in scholarship. Another factor which reduced the harvest suggested by Tauger included endemic plant rust. However, in regard to plant disease Stephen Wheatcroft notes that the Soviet extension of sown area combined with lack of crop rotation may have exacerbated the problem, which Tauger also acknowledges in regard to the latter.

Collectivization, procurements, and the export of grain

See also: Collectivization in the Soviet Union; Five-year plans of the Soviet Union § First plan, 1928–1932; and Causes of the Holodomor § Consequence of collectivization
Postcard commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Holodomor, which shows Stalin looking at his kolkhoz built on a pile of starved Ukrainians. Published in 1948 by the Ukrainian Youth Association.

Due to factional struggles with Bukharin wing of the party, peasant resistance to the NEP under Lenin, and the need for industrialization, Joseph Stalin declared a need to extract a "tribute" or "tax" from the peasantry. This idea was supported by most of the party in the 1920s. The tribute collected by the party took on the form of a virtual war against the peasantry that would lead to its cultural destruction and the relegating of the countryside to essentially a colony homogenized to the urban culture of the Soviet elite. Leon Trotsky, however, opposed the policy of forced collectivisation under Stalin and would have favoured a voluntary, gradual approach towards collective farming with greater tolerance for the rights of Soviet Ukrainians. This campaign of "colonizing" the peasantry had its roots both in old Russian Imperialism and modern social engineering of the nation state yet with key differences to the latter such as Soviet repression reflecting more the weakness of said state rather than its strength.

In this vein by the summer of 1930, the government instituted a program of food requisitioning, ostensibly to increase grain exports. According to Natalya Naumenko, collectivization in the Soviet Union and lack of favored industries were primary contributors to famine mortality (52% of excess deaths), and some evidence shows there was discrimination against ethnic Ukrainians and Germans. In Ukraine collectivisation policy was enforced, entailing extreme crisis and contributing to the famine. In 1929–1930, peasants were induced to transfer land and livestock to state-owned farms, on which they would work as day-labourers for payment in kind.

Food exports continued during the famine, albeit at a reduced rate. In regard to exports, Michael Ellman states that the 1932–1933 grain exports amounted to 1.8 million tonnes, which would have been enough to feed 5 million people for one year. The collectivization and high procurement quota explanation for the famine is somewhat called into question by the fact that the oblasts of Ukraine with the highest losses were Kyiv and Kharkiv, which produced far lower amounts of grain than other sections of the country. Historian Stephen G. Wheatcroft lists four problems Soviet authorities ignored during collectivization that would hinder the advancement of agricultural technology and ultimately contributed to the famine:

  • "Over-extension of the sown area" — Crops yields were reduced and likely some plant disease caused by the planting of future harvests across a wider area of land without rejuvenating soil leading to the reduction of fallow land.
  • "Decline in draught power" — the over extraction of grain lead to the loss of food for farm animals, which in turn reduced the effectiveness of agricultural operations.
  • "Quality of cultivation" — the planting and extracting of the harvest, along with ploughing was done in a poor manner due to inexperienced and demoralized workers and the aforementioned lack of draught power.
  • "The poor weather" — drought and other poor weather conditions were largely ignored by Soviet authorities who gambled on good weather and believed agricultural difficulties would be overcome.

Mark Tauger notes that Soviet and Western specialist at the time noted draught power shortages and lack of crop rotation contributed to intense weed infestations, with these both being also factors Stephen Wheatcroft lists as contributing to the famine. Natalya Naumenko calculated that reduced agriculture production in "collectivized" collective farms is responsible for up to 52% of Holodomor excess deaths.

Discrimination and persecution of Ukrainians

See also: Causes of the Holodomor § Soviet state policies that contributed to the Holodomor, and Russification of Ukraine § Mid-1920s to early 1930s

At every station there was a crowd of peasants in rags, offering icons and linen in exchange for a loaf of bread. The women were lifting up their infants to the compartment windows—infants pitiful and terrifying with limbs like sticks, puffed bellies, big cadaverous heads lolling on thin necks.

Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-British journalist

It has been proposed that the Soviet leadership used the human-made famine to attack Ukrainian nationalism, and thus it could fall under the legal definition of genocide. For example, special and particularly lethal policies were adopted in and largely limited to Soviet Ukraine at the end of 1932 and 1933. According to Timothy Snyder, "each of them may seem like an anodyne administrative measure, and each of them was certainly presented as such at the time, and yet each had to kill." Other sources discuss the famine in relation to a project of imperialism or colonialism of Ukraine by the Soviet state.

A map of the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 with the areas of most disastrous famine shaded black

According to a Centre for Economic Policy Research paper published in 2021 by Andrei Markevich, Natalya Naumenko, and Nancy Qian, regions with higher Ukrainian population shares were struck harder with centrally planned policies corresponding to famine such as increased procurement rate, and Ukrainian populated areas were given lower numbers of tractors which the paper argues demonstrates that ethnic discrimination across the board was centrally planned, ultimately concluding that 92% of famine deaths in Ukraine alone along with 77% of famine deaths in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus combined can be explained by systematic bias against Ukrainians.

Mark Tauger criticized Natalya Naumenko's work as being based on: "major historical inaccuracies and falsehoods, omissions of essential evidence contained in her sources or easily available, and substantial misunderstandings of certain key topics". For example, Naumenko ignored Tauger's findings of 8.94 million tons of the harvest that had been lost to crop "rust and smut", four reductions in grain procurement to Ukraine including a 39.5 million puds reduction in grain procurements ordered by Stalin, and that from Tauger's findings which are contrary to Naumenko's paper's claims the "per-capita grain procurements in Ukraine were less, often significantly less, than the per-capita procurements from the five other main grain-producing regions in the USSR in 1932".

Other scholars argue that in other years preceding the famine this was not the case. For example, Stanislav Kulchytsky claims Ukraine produced more grain in 1930 than the Central Black Earth Oblast, Middle and Lower Volga and North Caucasus regions all together, which had never been done before, and on average gave 4.7 quintals of grain from every sown hectare to the state—a record-breaking index of marketability—but was unable to fulfill the grain quota for 1930 until May 1931. Ukraine produced a similar amount of grain in 1931; however, by the late spring of 1932 "many districts were left with no reserves of produce or fodder at all". Despite this, according to statistics gathered by Nataliia Levchuk, Ukraine and North Caucasus Krai delivered almost 100% of their grain procurement in 1931 versus 67% in two Russian Oblasts during the same period versus 1932 where three Russian regions delivered almost all of their procurements and Ukraine and North Caucasus did not. This can partially be explained by Ukrainian regions losing a third of their harvests and Russian regions losing by comparison only 15% of their harvest.

Ultimately, Tauger states: "if the regime had not taken even that smaller amount grain from Ukrainian villages, the famine could have been greatly reduced or even eliminated" however (in his words) "if the regime had left that grain in Ukraine, then other parts of the USSR would have been even more deprived of food than they were, including Ukrainian cities and industrial sites, and the overall effect would still have been a major famine, even worse in "non-Ukrainian" regions." In fact in contrast to Naumenko's paper's claims the higher Ukrainian collectivization rates in Tauger's opinion actually indicate a pro-Ukrainian bias in Soviet policies rather than an anti-Ukrainian one: " did not see collectivization as "discrimination" against Ukrainians; they saw it as a reflection of—in the leaders' view—Ukraine's relatively more advanced farming skills that made Ukraine better prepared for collectivization (Davies 1980a, 166, 187–188; Tauger 2006a)."

Naumenko responded to some of Tauger's criticisms in another paper. Naumenko criticizes Tauger's view of the efficacy of collective farms arguing Tauger's view goes against the consensus, she also states that the tenfold difference in death toll between the 1932-1933 Soviet famine and the Russian famine of 1891–1892 can only be explained by government policies, and that the infestations of pests and plant disease suggested by Tauger as a cause of the famine must also correspond such infestations to rates of collectivization due to deaths by area corresponding to this due Naumenko's findings that: "on average, if you compare two regions with similar pre-famine characteristics, one with zero collectivization rate and another with a 100 percent collectivization rate, the more collectivized region's 1933 mortality rate increases by 58 per thousand relative to its 1927–1928 mortality rate". Naumenko believes the disagreement between her and Tauger is due to a "gulf in training and methods between quantitative fields like political science and economics and qualitative fields like history" noting that Tauger makes no comments on one of her paper's results section.

Tauger made a counter-reply to this reply by Naumenko. Tauger argues in his counter reply that Naumenko's attempt to correspond collectivization rates to famine mortality fails because "there was no single level of collectivization anywhere in the USSR in 1930, especially in the Ukrainian Republic" and that "since collectivization changed significantly by 1932–1933, any connection between 1930 and 1933 omits those changes and is therefore invalid". Tauger also criticizes Naumenko's ignoring of statistics Tauger's presented where "in her reply she completely ignored the quantitative data presented in article" in which she against the evidence "denied that any famines took place in the later 1920s". To counter Naumenko's claim that collectivization explains the famine Tauger argues ( in his words) how agro-environmental disasters better explain the regional discrepancies: " calculations again omit any consideration of the agro-environmental disasters that harmed farm production in 1932. In her appendices, Table C3, she does the same calculation with collectivization data from 1932, which she argues shows a closer correlation between collectivization and famine mortality (Naumenko 2021b, 33). Yet, as I showed, those agroenvironmental disasters were much worse in the regions with higher collectivization—especially Ukraine, the North Caucasus, and the Volga River basin (and also in Kazakhstan)—than elsewhere in the USSR. As I documented in my article and other publications, these were regions that had a history of environmental disasters that caused crop failures and famines repeatedly in Russian history." Tauger notes: " assumption that collectivization subjected peasants to higher procurements, but in 1932 in Ukraine this was clearly not the case" as "grain procurements both total and per-capita were much lower in Ukraine than anywhere else in the USSR in 1932".

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Collectivization in the Soviet Union, including the Ukrainian SSR, was not popular among the peasantry, and forced collectivisation led to numerous peasant revolts. The OGPU recorded 932 disturbances in Ukraine, 173 in the North Caucasus, and only 43 in the Central Black Earth Oblast (out of 1,630 total). Reports two years prior recorded over 4,000 unrests in Ukraine, while in other agricultural regions - Central Black Earth, Middle Volga, Lower Volga, and North Caucasus - the numbers were sightly above 1,000. OGPU's summaries also cited public proclamations of Ukrainian insurgents to restore the independence of Ukraine, while reports by the Ukrainian officials included information about the declining popularity and authority of the party among peasants. Oleh Wolowyna comments that peasant resistance and the ensuing repression of said resistance was a critical factor for the famine in Ukraine and parts of Russia populated by national minorities like Germans and Ukrainians allegedly tainted by "fascism and bourgeois nationalism" according to Soviet authorities.

Regional variation

The collectivization and high procurement quota explanation for the famine is called into question by the fact that the oblasts of Ukraine with the highest losses were Kyiv and Kharkiv, which produced far lower amounts of grain than other sections of the country. A potential explanation for this was that Kharkiv and Kyiv fulfilled and over fulfilled their grain procurements in 1930 which led to raions in these oblasts having their procurement quotas doubled in 1931 compared to the national average increase in procurement rate of 9%. While Kharkiv and Kyiv had their quotas increased, the Odesa oblast and some raions of Dnipropetrovsk oblast had their procurement quotas decreased.

According to Nataliia Levchuk of the Ptoukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies, "the distribution of the largely increased 1931 grain quotas in Kharkiv and Kyiv oblasts by raion was very uneven and unjustified because it was done disproportionally to the percentage of wheat sown area and their potential grain capacity."

Famine losses by region
Oblast Total Deaths (1932–1934 in thousands) Deaths per 1000 (1932) Deaths per 1000 (1933) Deaths per 1000 (1934)
Kyiv Oblast 1110.8 13.7 178.7 7
Kharkiv Oblast 1037.6 7.8 178.9 4.2
Vinnytsia Oblast 545.5 5.9 114.6 5.2
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 368.4 5.4 91.6 4.7
Odesa Oblast 326.9 6.1 98.8 2.4
Chernihiv Oblast 254.2 6 75.7 11.9
Stalino Oblast 230.8 7 41.1 6.4
Tyraspol 68.3 9.6 102.4 8.1

Repressive policies

A "black board" published in the newspaper "Under the Flag of Lenin" in January 1933—a "blacklist" identifying specific kolhozes and their punishment in the Bashtanka Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Several repressive policies were implemented in Ukraine immediately preceding, during, and proceeding the famine, including but not limited to cultural-religious persecution the Law of Spikelets, Blacklisting, the internal passport system, and harsh grain requisitions.

Preceding the famine

See also: Union for the Freedom of Ukraine process

Coiner of the term genocide, Raphael Lemkin considered the repression of the Orthodox Church to be a prong of genocide against Ukrainians when seen in correlation to the Holodomor famine. Collectivization did not just entail the acquisition of land from farmers but also the closing of churches, burning of icons, and the arrests of priests. Associating the church with the tsarist regime, the Soviet state continued to undermine the church through expropriations and repression. They cut off state financial support to the church and secularized church schools.

By early 1930 75% of the Autocephalist parishes in Ukraine were persecuted by Soviet authorities. The GPU instigated a show trial which denounced the Orthodox Church in Ukraine as a "nationalist, political, counter-revolutionary organization" and instigated a staged "self-dissolution." However the Church was later allowed to reorganize in December 1930 under a pro-Soviet cosmopolitan leader of Ivan Pavlovsky yet purges of the Church reignited during the Great Purge. Changes in cultural politics also occurred.

First soviet show trial in Ukraine in connection to the member of the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party has taken place as early as 1921. Yet, the first show trial related to Ukraine in the period of the First five-year plan was a trial in 1928 in North Caucasus Krai, known as Shakhty Trial. Prior to this in October 1925 Shakhty Okrug (previously part of Donets Governorate) was transferred from Ukrainian SSR to RSFSR and thus the trial was held in Moscow.Yet, one of the central ones, was the "Union for the Freedom of Ukraine" Trial in which 45 intellectuals, higher education professors, writers, a theologian and a priest were publicly prosecuted in Kharkiv, then capital of Soviet Ukraine. Fifteen of the accused were executed, and 248 with links to the defendants were sent to the camps. Ukrainian Youth Association was also considered a "sub-division" of the "Union for Freedom of Ukraine" and thus its members were also trialed. Other notable Ukrainian processes included "People's Revolutionary Socialist Party" trial in 1930 (it was claimed that this was an illegal armed insurgent organisation created in December 1929, which existed in Ukraine and Chechnya) and "Ukrainian National Center" trial in 1931 (another non-existent counter-revolutionary organisation). In RSFSR at that time some other show trials such as Industrial Party Trial (1930) and the 1931 Menshevik Trial were held. The total number is not known, but tens of thousands of people are estimated to have been arrested, exiled, and/or executed during and after the trial including 30,000 intellectuals, writers, teachers, and scientists.

During the famine

The "Decree About the Protection of Socialist Property", nicknamed by the farmers the Law of Spikelets, was enacted on 7 August 1932. The purpose of the law was to protect the property of the kolkhoz collective farms. It was nicknamed the Law of Spikelets because it allowed people to be prosecuted for gleaning leftover grain from the fields. There were more than 200,000 people sentenced under this law.

Stalin wrote a letter to Lazar Kaganovich on 11 September 1932, shortly before Kaganovich and Vyacheslav Molotov were appointed heads of special commissions to oversee the grain procurements in Ukraine and Kuban (a region populated primarily by ethnic Ukrainians at the time), in which Stalin urged Kaganovich to force Ukraine into absolute compliance:

The main thing is now Ukraine. Matters in Ukraine are now extremely bad. Bad from the standpoint of the Party line. They say that there are two oblasts of Ukraine (Kyiv and Dnipropetrovs'k, it seems) where almost 50 raikomy have come out against the plan of grain procurements, considering them unrealistic. In other raikomy, they confirm, the matter is no better. What does this look like? This is no party, but a parliament, a caricature of a parliament. Instead of directing the districts, Kosior is always waffling between the directives of the CC VKP(b) and the demands of the district Party committees and waffled to the end. Lenin was right, when he said that a person who lacks the courage at the necessary moment to go against the current cannot be a real Bolshevik leader. Bad from the standpoint of the Soviet line. Chubar is no leader. Bad from the standpoint of the GPU. Redens lacks the energy to direct the struggle with the counterrevolution in such a big and unique republic as Ukraine. If we do not now correct the situation in Ukraine, we could lose Ukraine. Consider that Piłsudski is not daydreaming, and his agents in Ukraine are much stronger than Redens or Kosior imagine. Also consider that within the Ukrainian Communist Party (500,000 members, ha, ha) there are not a few (yes, not a few!) rotten elements that are conscious or unconscious Petliura adherents and in the final analysis agents of Pilsudski. If the situation gets any worse, these elements won't hesitate to open a front within (and outside) the Party, against the Party. Worst of all, the Ukrainian leadership doesn't see these dangers.... Set yourself the task of turning Ukraine in the shortest possible time into a fortress of the USSR, into the most inalienable republic. Don't worry about money for this purpose.

The blacklist system was formalized in 1932 by the 20 November decree "The Struggle against Kurkul Influence in Collective Farms"; blacklisting, synonymous with a board of infamy, was one of the elements of agitation-propaganda in the Soviet Union, and especially Ukraine and the ethnically Ukrainian Kuban region in the 1930s. A blacklisted collective farm, village, or raion (district) had its monetary loans and grain advances called in, stores closed, grain supplies, livestock, and food confiscated as a penalty, and was cut off from trade. Its Communist Party and collective farm committees were purged and subject to arrest, and their territory was forcibly cordoned off by the OGPU secret police.

Although nominally targeting collective farms failing to meet grain quotas and independent farmers with outstanding tax-in-kind, in practice the punishment was applied to all residents of affected villages and raions, including teachers, tradespeople, and children. In the end 37 out of 392 districts along with at least 400 collective farms where put on the "black board" in Ukraine, more than half of the blacklisted farms being in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast alone. Every single raion in Dnipropetrovsk had at least one blacklisted village, and in Vinnytsia oblast five entire raions were blacklisted. This oblast is situated right in the middle of traditional lands of the Zaporizhian Cossacks. Cossack villages were also blacklisted in the Volga and Kuban regions of Russia. Some blacklisted areas in Kharkiv could have death rates exceeding 40% while in other areas such as Vinnytsia blacklisting had no particular effect on mortality.

The passport system in the Soviet Union (identity cards) was introduced on 27 December 1932 to deal with the exodus of peasants from the countryside. Individuals not having such a document could not leave their homes on pain of administrative penalties, such as internment in labour camps (Gulag). On 22 January 1933, Joseph Stalin signed a secret decree restricting travel by peasants after requests for bread began in the Kuban and Ukraine. Soviet authorities blamed the exodus of peasants during the famine on anti-Soviet elements, saying that "like the outflow from Ukraine last year, was organized by the enemies of Soviet power."

There was a wave of migration due to starvation and authorities responded by introducing a requirement that passports be used to go between republics and banning travel by rail. During March 1933 GPU reported that 219,460 people were either intercepted and escorted back or arrested at its checkpoints meant to prevent movement of peasants between districts. It has been estimated that there were some 150,000 excess deaths as a result of this policy, and one historian asserts that these deaths constitute a crime against humanity. In contrast, historian Stephen Kotkin argues that the sealing of the Ukrainian borders caused by the internal passport system was in order to prevent the spread of famine-related diseases.

A "Red Train" of carts from the "Wave of Proletarian Revolution" collective farm in the village of Oleksiyivka, Kharkiv oblast in 1932. "Red Trains" took the first harvest of the season's crop to the government depots. During the Holodomor, these brigades were part of the Soviet Government's policy of taking away food from the peasants.

Between January and mid-April 1933, a factor contributing to a surge of deaths within certain regions of Ukraine during the period was the relentless search for alleged hidden grain by the confiscation of all food stuffs from certain households, which Stalin implicitly approved of through a telegram he sent on 1 January 1933 to the Ukrainian government reminding Ukrainian farmers of the severe penalties for not surrendering grain they may be hiding.

On the other hand, considerable grain reserves were held back by the Soviet government. By 1 July 1933, around 1,141,000 tons of grain were kept in partially secret reserves which the government did not want to touch. Stephen Wheatcroft, Mark Tauger, and R.W. Davies conclude: "it seems certain that, if Stalin had risked lower levels of these reserves in spring and summer 1933, hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions – of lives could have been saved".

In order to make up for unfulfilled grain procurement quotas in Ukraine, reserves of grain were confiscated from three sources including, according to Oleh Wolowyna, "(a) grain set side for seed for the next harvest; (b) a grain fund for emergencies; (c) grain issued to collective farmers for previously completed work, which had to be returned if the collective farm did not fulfill its quota."

Near the end of and after the famine

In Ukraine, there was a widespread purge of Communist party officials at all levels. According to Oleh Wolowyna, 390 "anti-Soviet, counter-revolutionary insurgent and chauvinist" groups were eliminated resulting in 37,797 arrests, that led to 719 executions, 8,003 people being sent to Gulag camps, and 2,728 being put into internal exile. 120,000 individuals in Ukraine were reviewed in the first 10 months of 1933 in a top-to-bottom purge of the Communist party resulting in 23% being eliminated as perceived class hostile elements. Pavel Postyshev was set in charge of placing people at the head of Machine-Tractor Stations in Ukraine which were responsible for purging elements deemed to be class hostile. The secretary of the Kharkiv Oblast referred to "bourgeois-nationalistic rabble" as "class enemies" even near the end of the famine. By the end of 1933, 60% of the heads of village councils and raion committees in Ukraine were replaced with an additional 40,000 lower-tier workers being purged.

Bandura is a traditional Ukrainian musical instrument, whereas bandurists were the carriers of traditional songs and folklore. One of the communist newspapers in 1930 already stated that "being in love with nationalist romance is not a communist thing" and in December 1933 during the All-Ukrainian Union of Art Workers, the bandura and kobza were declared class-enemy instruments, which lead to the beginning of the repressions against the musicians playing them.

Despite the crisis, the Soviet government refused to ask for foreign aid for the famine and persistently denied the famine's existence. What aid was given was selectively distributed to preserve the collective farm system. Grain producing oblasts in Ukraine such as Dnipropetrovsk were given more aid at an earlier time than more severely affected regions like Kharkiv which produced less grain. Joseph Stalin had quoted Vladimir Lenin during the famine declaring: "He who does not work, neither shall he eat."

This perspective is argued by Michael Ellman to have influenced official policy during the famine, with those deemed to be idlers being disfavored in aid distribution as compared to those deemed "conscientiously working collective farmers". In this vein, Olga Andriewsky states that Soviet archives indicate that the most productive workers were prioritized for receiving food aid.

Food rationing in Ukraine was determined by city categories (where one lived, with capitals and industrial centers being given preferential distribution), occupational categories (with industrial and railroad workers being prioritized over blue collar workers and intelligentsia), status in the family unit (with employed persons being entitled to higher rations than dependents and the elderly), and type of workplace in relation to industrialization (with those who worked in industrial endeavors near steel mills being preferred in distribution over those who worked in rural areas or in food). According to James Abbe, who visited Ukraine at that time, while the Soviet government insisted on him as well as other foreigners to sign an affidavit stating that "they had seen no forced labor in the Ukraine", "only the actual industrial workers had received enough to eat and even their families had suffered". Describing the coal mines he visited in Donetsk region, James Abbe mentions: "The next day we went into the question of forced labor. Of course, the armed soldiers situated in the mine shafts, power houses and tipples had bayonets fastened to their rifles and revolvers strapped to their belts; but they were doubtless guarding the property — though the superintendent failed to tell us what they were guarding the mines against. Anyhow, the system of issuing and revoking food cards is far more sinister and effective than bayonets".

There was also migration in to Ukraine as a response to the famine: in response to the demographic collapse, the Soviet authorities ordered large-scale resettlements, with over 117,000 peasants from remote regions of the Soviet Union taking over the deserted farms. Areas depopulated by the famine were resettled by Russians in the Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, but not as much so in central Ukraine. In some areas where depopulation was due to migration rather than mortality, Ukrainians returned to their places of residence to find their homes occupied by Russians, leading to widespread fights between Ukrainian farmers and Russian settlers. Such clashes caused around one million Russian settlers to be returned home.

Torgsin system

Torsion networks appeared in 1931.They were selling goods for foreign currency or exchanging them for precious metals. Originally only exclusively for foreigners, but later soviet citizens were also allowed to exchange the goods. During Holodomor people brought family heritage - crosses, earrings, wedding rings to Torgsins and exchanged it for special stamps, for which they could obtain basic goods - mostly flour, cereals or sugar. Torgsins operated at highly speculative prices and were known for long queues. With that mechanism authorities were able to extort from the population whatever could have been hidden during the confiscations. Many families survived, in particular thanks to Torgsin. Yet the network was also a cause of a psychological trauma, since people had to give up on family valuables and relics that had not only material, but also spiritual value. During the Holodomor, the network of torgsins expanded considerably—by the end of 1933, there were already about 300 such shops in Soviet Ukraine. In 1933, the population brought 45 tons of pure gold to torsgins. The network existed until 1936 .

Cannibalism

Evidence of widespread cannibalism was documented during the Holodomor:

Survival was a moral as well as a physical struggle. A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was "not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you." The good people died first. Those who refused to steal or to prostitute themselves died. Those who gave food to others died. Those who refused to eat corpses died. Those who refused to kill their fellow man died. Parents who resisted cannibalism died before their children did.... At least 2,505 people were sentenced for cannibalism in the years 1932 and 1933 in Ukraine, though the actual number of cases was certainly much higher.

Most cases of cannibalism were "necrophagy, the consumption of corpses of people who had died of starvation". But the murder of children for food was common as well. Many survivors told of neighbors who had killed and eaten their own children. One woman, asked why she had done this, "answered that her children would not survive anyway, but this way she would". She was arrested by the police. The police also documented cases of children being kidnapped, killed, and eaten, and "stories of children being hunted down as food" circulated in many areas. When nearly all grain and all kinds of animal meat had been exhausted, "a black market arose in human flesh" and it "may even have entered the official economy." The police kept a close eye on butcher shops and slaughterhouses, trying to prevent them from bringing human flesh into circulation. The Italian consul, Sergio Gradenigo, nevertheless reported from Kharkiv that the "trade of human meat becomes more active."

In March 1933, the secret police in Kyiv province collected "ten or more reports of cannibalism every day" but concluded that "in reality there are many more such incidents", most of which went unreported. Those found guilty of cannibalism were often "imprisoned, executed, or lynched". But while the authorities were well informed about the extent of cannibalism, they also tried to suppress this information from becoming widely known, the chief of the secret police warning "that written notes on the subject do not circulate among the officials where they might cause rumours". And the information secretly collected failed to spur the Soviet government into action. Various reports of the horrors of the famine, including the cannibalism, were sent to Moscow, where they were apparently shelved and ignored.

Ukrainians in other republics

Ukrainians in other parts of the Soviet Union also experienced famine and repressive policies. Rural districts with Ukrainian populations in parts of the Soviet Union outside of Ukraine had higher mortality rates in Russia and Belarus than other districts, this discrepancy did not however apply to urban Ukrainians in these areas. This is sometimes viewed as being connected to the Holodomor in Ukraine.

Kuban and the North Caucasus of Russia

In 1932–1933, the policies of forced collectivization of the Ukrainian population of the Soviet Union, which caused a devastating famine that greatly affected the Ukrainian population of the Kuban. The number of documented victims of famine in Kuban was at least 62,000. According to other historians, the real death toll is many times higher. Brain Boeck thinks the figure more in the "hundreds of thousands". One source estimate that during the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 Krasnodar lost over 14% of its population. Purges were also extensive in the region. 358 of 716 party secretaries in Kuban were removed, along with 43% of the 25,000 party members there; in total, 40% of the 115,000 to 120,000 rural party members in the North Caucasus were removed. Party officials associated with Ukrainization were targeted, as the national policy was viewed to be connected with the failure of grain procurement by Soviet authorities. In this vein the Kuban corresponding to the famine had a reversal of the previously attempted policy of Ukrainisation. Prior to the reversal of Ukrainianization, the policy was failing in the Kuban with most local districts not completing it partially due to opposition by local Cossack nationalists and Russian chauvinists in the Kuban including by sabotage despite punitive threats from the state to complete the process made in May 1932.

The large Cossack stanitsa Poltavskaia sabotaged and resisted collectivization more than any other area in the Kuban which was perceived by Lazar Kaganovich to be connected to Ukrainian nationalist and Cossack conspiracy. Kaganovich relentlessly pursued the policy of requisition of grain in Poltavskaia and the rest of the Kuban and personally oversaw the purging of local leaders and Cossacks. Kaganovich viewed the resistance of Poltavskaia through Ukrainian lens delivering oration in a mixed Ukrainian language. To justify this Kaganovich cited a letter allegedly written by a stanitsa ataman named Grigorii Omel'chenko advocating Cossack separatism and local reports of resistance to collectivization in association with this figure to substantiate this suspicion of the area. However Kaganocvich did not reveal in speeches throughout the region that many of those targeted by persecution in Poltavskaia had their family members and friends deported or shot including in years before the supposed Omel'chenko crisis even started. Ultimately due to being perceived as the most rebellious area almost all (or 12,000) members of the Poltavskaia stantisa were deported to the north. This coincided with and was a part of a wider deportation of 46,000 cossacks from Kuban. According to the Holodomor Museum, 300,000 people were deported from the North Caucasus between 1930 and 1933, two thirds of them from the Kuban region.

Likely in connection to the affairs in Poltavskaia, Ukrainization was officially reversed in a decree on 26 December 1932; as stated in this decree, there was a two-week deadline to transfer all publishing and paperwork in the region to Russian, and the Ukrainian language was effectively banned in Kuban until 1991. A representative of the Ukrainian state publishing house claimed 1,500 Ukrainian teachers in the Kuban were either deported or killed though this number has not been verified. The professional Ukrainian theatre in Krasnodar was closed. All Ukrainian toponyms in the Kuban, which reflected the areas from which the first Ukrainians settlers had moved, were changed. The names of Stanytsias such as the rural town of Kyiv, in Krasnodar, was changed to "Krasnoartilyevskaya", and Uman to "Leningrad", and Poltavskaia to "Krasnoarmieiskaya". Russification, the Holodomor of 1932–1933 and other tactics used by the Union government led to a catastrophic fall in the population that self-identified as being Ukrainian in the Kuban. Official Soviet Union statistics of 1959 state that Ukrainians made up 4% of the population, in 1989 – 3%. The self-identified Ukrainian population of Kuban decreased from 915,000 in 1926, to 150,000 in 1939.

Kazakhstan

Ethnic minorities in Kazakhstan were significantly affected by the Kazakh famine of 1930–1933 in addition to the Kazakhs. Ukrainians in Kazakhstan had the second highest proportional death rate after the Kazakhs themselves. Between the 1926 and 1937 censuses, Ukrainian population in Kazakhstan decreased by 36% from 859,396 to 549,859 – mainly from famine and epidemics but also including emigration – while Uzbeks, Uighurs, and other ethnic minorities in Kazakhstan each lost between 12% and 30% of their populations.

Aftermath and immediate reception

A print from a postcard designed by Zofia Nalepińska-Bojczuk, referring to the Holodomor, 1935

Despite attempts by the Soviet authorities to hide the scale of the disaster, it became known abroad thanks to the publications of journalists Gareth Jones, Malcolm Muggeridge, Ewald Ammende and Rhea Clyman, and photographs made by engineer Alexander Wienerberger and others. To support their denial of the famine, the Soviets hosted prominent Westerners such as George Bernard Shaw, French ex-prime minister Édouard Herriot, and others at Potemkin villages, who then made statements that they had not seen hunger.

During the German occupation of Ukraine, the occupation authorities allowed the publication of articles in local newspapers about Holodomor and other communist crimes, but they also did not want to pay too much attention to this issue in order to avoid stirring national sentiment. In 1942, Stepan Sosnovy, an agronomist in Kharkiv, published a comprehensive statistical research on the number of Holodomor casualties, based on documents from Soviet archives.

In the post-war period, the Ukrainian diaspora disseminated information about the Holodomor in Europe and North America. At first, the public attitude was rather cautious, as the information came from people who had lived in the occupied territories, but it gradually changed in the 1950s. Scientific study of the Holodomor, based on the growing number of memoirs published by survivors, began in the 1950s.

Death toll

See also: Soviet Census (1937)
A map of the depopulation of Ukraine and southern Russia from 1929 to 1933, with territories that were not part of the Soviet state during the famine in white

The Soviet Union long denied that the famine had taken place. The NKVD (and later KGB) controlled the archives for the Holodomor period and made relevant records available very slowly. The exact number of the victims remains unknown and is probably impossible to estimate even within a margin of error of a hundred thousand. However, by the end of 1933, millions of people had starved to death or otherwise died unnaturally in the Soviet republics. In 2001, based on a range of official demographic data, historian Stephen G. Wheatcroft noted that official death statistics for this period were systematically repressed and showed that many deaths were un-registered.

Estimates vary in their coverage, with some using the 1933 Ukraine borders, some of the current borders, and some counting ethnic Ukrainians. Some extrapolate on the basis of deaths in a given area, while others use archival data. Some historians question the accuracy of Soviet censuses, as they may reflect Soviet propaganda.

Other estimates come from recorded discussions between world leaders. In an August 1942 conversation, Stalin gave Winston Churchill his estimates of the number of "kulaks" who were repressed for resisting collectivisation as 10 million, in all of the Soviet Union, rather than only in Ukraine. When using this number, Stalin implied that it included not only those who lost their lives but also those who were forcibly deported.

There are variations in opinion as to whether deaths in Gulag labour camps should be counted or only those who starved to death at home. Estimates before archival opening varied widely such as: 2.5 million (Volodymyr Kubiyovych); 4.8 million (Vasyl Hryshko); and 5 million (Robert Conquest).

In the 1980s, dissident demographer and historian Alexander P. Babyonyshev (writing as Sergei Maksudov) estimated officially non-accounted child mortality in 1933 at 150,000, leading to a calculation that the number of births for 1933 should be increased from 471,000 to 621,000 (down from 1,184,000 in 1927). Given the decreasing birth rates and assuming the natural mortality rates in 1933 to be equal to the average annual mortality rate in 1927–1930 (524,000 per year), a natural population growth for 1933 would have been 97,000 (as opposed to the recorded decrease of 1,379,000). This was five times less than the growth in the previous three years (1927–1930). Straight-line extrapolation of population (continuation of the previous net change) between census takings in 1927 and 1936 would have been +4.043 million, which compares to a recorded −538,000 change. Overall change in birth and death amounts to 4.581 million fewer people but whether through factors of choice, disease or starvation will never be fully known.

In the 2000s, there were debates among historians and in civil society about the number of deaths as Soviet files were released and tension built between Russia and the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko. Yushchenko and other Ukrainian politicians described fatalities as in the region of seven to ten million. Yushchenko stated in a speech to the United States Congress that the Holodomor "took away 20 million lives of Ukrainians,". Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a public statement giving the death toll at about 10 million.

Some Ukrainian and Western historians use similar figures. David R. Marples gave a figure of 7.5 million in 2007. During an international conference held in Ukraine in 2016, Holodomor 1932–1933 loss of the Ukrainian nation, at the National University of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko, it was claimed that during the Holodomor 7 million Ukrainians were killed, and in total, 10 million people died of starvation across the USSR.

However, the use of the 7 to 20 million figures has been criticized by historians Timothy D. Snyder and Stephen G. Wheatcroft. Snyder wrote: "President Viktor Yushchenko does his country a grave disservice by claiming ten million deaths, thus exaggerating the number of Ukrainians killed by a factor of three; but it is true that the famine in Ukraine of 1932–1933 was a result of purposeful political decisions, and killed about three million people." In an email to Postmedia News, Wheatcroft wrote: "I find it regrettable that Stephen Harper and other leading Western politicians are continuing to use such exaggerated figures for Ukrainian famine mortality" and "here is absolutely no basis for accepting a figure of 10 million Ukrainians dying as a result of the famine of 1932–1933." In 2001, Wheatcroft had calculated total population loss (including stillbirth) across the Union at 10 million and possibly up to 15 million between 1931 and 1934, including 2.8 million (and possibly up to 4.8 million excess deaths) and 3.7 million (up to 6.7 million) population losses including birth losses in Ukraine.

Declassified Soviet statistics
(in thousands)
Year Births Deaths Natural
change
1927 1,184 523 661
1928 1,139 496 643
1929 1,081 539 542
1930 1,023 536 487
1931 975 515 460
1932 782 668 114
1933 471 1,850 −1,379
1934 571 483 88
1935 759 342 417
1936 895 361 534

In 2002, Ukrainian historian Stanislav Kulchytsky [d], using demographic data including those recently unclassified, narrowed the losses to about 3.2 million or, allowing for the lack of precise data, 3 million to 3.5 million. The number of recorded excess deaths extracted from the birth/death statistics from Soviet archives is contradictory. The data fail to add up to the differences between the results of the 1926 Census and the 1937 Census. Kulchytsky summarized the declassified Soviet statistics as showing a decrease of 538,000 people in the population of Soviet Ukraine between 1926 census (28,926,000) and 1937 census (28,388,000).

Historians estimate a quarter of the death toll was from children and extrapolate a further 600,000 lost births.

Similarly, Wheatcroft's work from Soviet archives showed that excess deaths in Ukraine in 1932–1933 numbered a minimum of 1.8 million (2.7 including birth losses): "Depending upon the estimations made concerning unregistered mortality and natality, these figures could be increased to a level of 2.8 million to a maximum of 4.8 million excess deaths and to 3.7 million to a maximum of 6.7 million population losses (including birth losses)".

Starvation during the Holodomor, Kharkivshchyna, 1933. Photo by Alexander Wienerberger
Passers-by and the corpse of a starved man on a street in Kharkiv, 1932

A 2002 study by French demographer Jacques Vallin and colleagues utilising some similar primary sources to Kulchytsky, and performing an analysis with more sophisticated demographic tools with forward projection of expected growth from the 1926 census and backward projection from the 1939 census estimates the number of direct deaths for 1933 as 2.582 million. This number of deaths does not reflect the total demographic loss for Ukraine from these events as the fall of the birth rate during the crisis and the out-migration contribute to the latter as well. The total population shortfall from the expected value between 1926 and 1939 estimated by Vallin amounted to 4.566 million.

Of this number, 1.057 million is attributed to the birth deficit, 930,000 to forced out-migration, and 2.582 million to the combination of excess mortality and voluntary out-migration. With the latter assumed to be negligible, this estimate gives the number of deaths as the result of the 1933 famine about 2.2 million. According to demographic studies, life expectancy, which had been in the high forties to low fifties, fell sharply for those born in 1932 to 28 years, and for 1933 fell further to the extremely low 10.8 years for females and 7.3 years for males. It remained abnormally low for 1934 but, as commonly expected for the post-crisis period peaked in 1935–36.

According to historian Snyder in 2010, the recorded figure of excess deaths was 2.4 million. However, Snyder claims that this figure is "substantially low" due to many deaths going unrecorded. Snyder states that demographic calculations carried out by the Ukrainian government provide a figure of 3.89 million dead, and opined that the actual figure is likely between these two figures, approximately 3.3 million deaths to starvation and disease related to the starvation in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933. Snyder also estimates that of the million people who died in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from famine at the same time, approximately 200,000 were ethnic Ukrainians due to Ukrainian-inhabited regions being particularly hard hit in Russia.

As a child, Mikhail Gorbachev, born into a mixed Russian-Ukrainian family, experienced the famine in Stavropol Krai, Russia. He recalled in a memoir that "In that terrible year nearly half the population of my native village, Privolnoye, starved to death, including two sisters and one brother of my father."

Wheatcroft and R. W. Davies concluded that disease was the cause of a large number of deaths: in 1932–1933, there were 1.2 million cases of typhus and 500,000 cases of typhoid fever. Malnourishment increases fatality rates from many diseases, and are not counted by some historians. From 1932 to 1934, the largest rate of increase was recorded for typhus, commonly spread by lice. In conditions of harvest failure and increased poverty, lice are likely to increase.

Gathering numerous refugees at railway stations, on trains and elsewhere facilitates the spread. In 1933, the number of recorded cases was 20 times the 1929 level. The number of cases per head of population recorded in Ukraine in 1933 was already considerably higher than in the USSR as a whole. By June 1933, the incidence in Ukraine had increased to nearly 10 times the January level, and it was much higher than in the rest of the USSR.

Estimates of the human losses due to famine must account for the numbers involved in migration (including forced resettlement). According to Soviet statistics, the migration balance for the population in Ukraine for 1927–1936 period was a loss of 1.343 million people. Even when the data were collected, the Soviet statistical institutions acknowledged that the precision was less than for the data of the natural population change. The total number of deaths in Ukraine due to unnatural causes for the given ten years was 3.238 million. Accounting for the lack of precision, estimates of the human toll range from 2.2 million to 3.5 million deaths.

According to Babyonyshev's 1981 estimate, about 81.3% of the famine victims in the Ukrainian SSR were ethnic Ukrainians, 4.5% Russians, 1.4% Jews and 1.1% were Poles. Many Belarusians, Volga Germans and other nationalities were victims as well. The Ukrainian rural population was the hardest hit by the Holodomor. Since the peasantry constituted a demographic backbone of the Ukrainian nation, the tragedy deeply affected the Ukrainians for many years. In an October 2013 opinion poll (in Ukraine) 38.7% of those polled stated "my families had people affected by the famine", 39.2% stated they did not have such relatives, and 22.1% did not know.

Genocide question

Main article: Holodomor genocide question
Chicago American's front page

Scholars continue to debate whether the human-made Soviet famine was a central act in a campaign of genocide, or a tragic byproduct of rapid Soviet industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture. Whether the Holodomor is a genocide is a significant and contentious issue in modern politics. A number of governments, such as Canada, have recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide. The decision was criticized by David R. Marples, who claimed that states who recognize the Holodomor as a genocide are motivated by emotion, or on pressure by local and international groups rather than hard evidence. In contrast, some sources argue that Russian influence and unwillingness to worsen relations with Russia would prevent or stall the recognition of Holodomor as a genocide in certain regions (for example, Germany).

Scholarly positions are diverse. Raphael Lemkin (a pioneer of genocide studies who coined the term genocide, and an initiator of the Genocide Convention), called the famine an intentional genocide. James Mace and Norman Naimark have written that the Holodomor was a genocide and the intentional result of Soviet policies under Stalin. According to Lemkin, Ukraine was "perhaps the classic example of Soviet genocide, its longest and broadest experiment in Russification – the destruction of the Ukrainian nation". Lemkin stated that, because Ukrainians were very sensitive to the racial murder of its people and way too populous, the Soviet regime could not follow a pattern of total extermination (as in the Holocaust). Instead the genocidal effort consisted of four steps: 1) extermination of the Ukrainian national elite, 2) liquidation of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, 3) extermination of a significant part of the Ukrainian peasantry as "custodians of traditions, folklore and music, national language and literature", and 4) populating the territory with other nationalities with intent of mixing Ukrainians with them, which would eventually lead to the dissolution of the Ukrainian nation. Because of these four factors, Lemkin considered the Holodomor an attempt to destroy the whole Ukrainian nation, not just the Ukrainian peasantry. The "rediscovery" of his 1953 address about the Holodomor has influenced Holodomor scholars, especially his view of genocide as a complex process targeting institutions, culture, and economic existence of a group and not necessarily meaning its "immediate destruction".

Stanislav Kulchytsky, who recognizes Holodomor as genocide, believes that historians should approach the study of the famine with realization that in the Soviet socialist construction "appearance belied reality", and that the real intentions of some ideas and policies would not be put on paper. He nevertheless believes that there is enough evidence that proves that Stalin felt hostility and distrust towards Ukrainians and wanted to suppress any potential disobedience from their side. Kulchytsky bases his claims among other things on Stalin's telegrams and letters sent to the highest-ranked officials shortly before and during the time when most lethal policies were applied and executed in Ukraine and Kuban. He believes that while the famine started rather as a result of collectivization, near the end of 1932 it was turned into an instrument of intentional starvation of millions of Ukrainians to death.

Timothy Snyder states that, in his opinion, Holodomor meets the criteria of the Genocide convention. He does, however, refrain from using the term and prefers the term "mass killing" instead, arguing that the public misinterprets the term genocide as an intention to murder every member of the national or ethnic group, something that the Armenian genocide and Holocaust are closer to than any other cases, including the Holodomor.

Other historians such as Michael Ellman consider the Holodomor a crime against humanity, but do not classify it as a genocide. Economist Steven Rosefielde and historian Robert Conquest consider the death toll to be primarily due to state policy, and poor harvests. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Conquest was granted access to the Soviet state archives alongside other western academics. In 2004, Wheatcroft published a private correspondence that he had with Conquest. In the exchange, Conquest wrote that he is now of the opinion that the Holodomor was not purposefully inflicted by Stalin but "What I argue is that with resulting famine imminent, he could have prevented it, but put "Soviet interest" other than feeding the starving first – thus consciously abetting it". In an interview recorded in 2006 Conquest stated the Holodomor should be recognized as an attack on the Ukrainian people and discussed problems with the use of the term genocide.

Robert Davies, Stephen Kotkin, Stephen Wheatcroft and J. Arch Getty reject the notion that Stalin intentionally wanted to kill Ukrainians, but conclude that Stalinist policies and widespread incompetence among government officials set the stage for famine in Ukraine and other Soviet republics. Anne Applebaum believes that the famine was planned to undermine Ukrainian identity but discusses how shifts in understanding of the term genocide mean that it is more difficult to apply now that it was when the term was initially conceived. Another argument she puts forward is that the question of genocide is not as important as it once was because it was a proxy debate about Ukraine and Ukrainians' right to exist, a right which no longer needs historic justification.

Soviet and Western denial and downplay

Main article: Denial of the Holodomor
Daily Express, 6 August 1934

Scholars consider Holodomor denial to be the assertion that the 1932–1933 famine in Soviet Ukraine did not occur. Denying the existence of the famine was the Soviet state's position and reflected in both Soviet propaganda and the work of some Western journalists and intellectuals including George Bernard Shaw, Walter Duranty, and Louis Fischer. In Britain and the United States, eye-witness accounts by Welsh freelance journalist Gareth Jones and by the American Communist Fred Beal were met with widespread disbelief.

In the Soviet Union, any discussion of the famine was banned entirely. Ukrainian historian Stanislav Kulchytsky stated the Soviet government ordered him to falsify his findings and depict the famine as an unavoidable natural disaster, to absolve the Communist Party and uphold the legacy of Stalin.

In modern politics

Main article: Holodomor in modern politics

The event is considered a genocide by Ukraine and the European Parliament, and the lower house of parliament of Russia condemned the Soviet regime "that has neglected the lives of people for the achievement of economic and political goals".

Lazar Kaganovich (left) played a role in enforcing Stalin's policies that led to the Holodomor.

On 10 November 2003 at the United Nations, 25 countries, including Russia, Ukraine, and United States signed a joint statement on the seventieth anniversary of the Holodomor with the following preamble:

In the former Soviet Union millions of men, women and children fell victims to the cruel actions and policies of the totalitarian regime. The Great Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor), took from 7 million to 10 million innocent lives and became a national tragedy for the Ukrainian people. In this regard, we note activities in observance of the seventieth anniversary of this Famine, in particular organized by the Government of Ukraine. Honouring the seventieth anniversary of the Ukrainian tragedy, we also commemorate the memory of millions of Russians, Kazakhs and representatives of other nationalities who died of starvation in the Volga River region, Northern Caucasus, Kazakhstan and in other parts of the former Soviet Union, as a result of civil war and forced collectivisation, leaving deep scars in the consciousness of future generations.

In 1984, the United States Congress established the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine, which compiled its 1988 Report to Congress. In the report, the US government concludes with anecdotal evidence, that the Soviets had purposely prevented Ukrainians from leaving famine-struck regions. This was corroborated following the discovery of Stalin's letter to Molotov titled, "Preventing the Mass Exodus of Peasants who are Starving", restricting travel by peasants after "in the Kuban and Ukraine a massive outflow of peasants 'for bread' has begun", that "like the outflow from Ukraine last year, was organized by the enemies of Soviet power." The commission published the earlier-mentioned letter written by Stalin to Lazar Kaganovich on 11 September 1932.

The Ukrainian parliament first recognized the Holodomor as a genocide in 2003, and criminalized both Holodomor denial and Holocaust denial in 2006. In 2010, the Kyiv Court of Appeal ruled that the Holodomor was an act of genocide and held Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Stanislav Kosior, Pavel Postyshev, Mendel Khatayevich, Vlas Chubar and other Bolshevik leaders responsible.

The Holodomor has been compared to the Irish Famine of 1845–1849 that took place in Ireland under British rule, which has been the subject of similar controversy and debate.

Russia's war strategy in the war against Ukraine in 2022 has drawn parallels with the Holodomor for the intentional impediment of relief supplies to civilians, the blockade of Ukrainian ports that threatened to cause famine in other countries, and the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure to deprive Ukrainians of the necessities of life. As of early May 2022, Ukraine's Defense Ministry claims that Russian forces have plundered at least 500,000 tons of grain from farmers since the invasion started. This looting included the seizure of industrial farm equipment, such as tractors, and forcing farmers to surrender 70% of their grain yields. Russia's use of starvation as a weapon of war in 2022 has been cited as part of a genocidal pattern in a major report by 35 legal and genocide experts.

Government recognition of Holodomor

Recognition of Holodomor by country

After campaigns from the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the recognition of the Holodomor as a genocide, parliaments and governments of various countries have issued statements recognising the Holodomor as genocide including Ukraine and 14 other countries, as of 2006, including Australia, Canada, Colombia, Georgia, Mexico, Peru and Poland.

In November 2022, the Holodomor was recognised as a genocide by Germany, Ireland, Moldova, Romania, and the Belarusian opposition in exile. Pope Francis compared the Russian war in Ukraine with its targeted destruction of civilian infrastructure to the "terrible Holodomor Genocide", during an address at St. Peter's Square.

Countries recognising Holodomor as a genocide:

Other political bodies whose legislatures have passed a resolution recognizing Holodomor as a genocide:

Remembrance

To honour those who perished in the Holodomor, monuments have been dedicated and public events held annually in Ukraine and worldwide.

Ukraine

Candles and wheat as a symbol of remembrance during the Holodomor Remembrance Day 2013 in Lviv
See also: Holodomor Memorial Day
One of the interpretations of The Running Man painting by Kazimir Malevich, also known as Peasant Between a Cross and a Sword, is the artist's indictment of the Great Famine. "Kasimir Malevich's haunting 'The Running Man' (1933–34), showing a peasant fleeing across a deserted landscape, is eloquent testimony to the disaster."

Since 1998, Ukraine has officially observed the Holodomor Memorial Day on the fourth Saturday of November, established by a presidential decree of Leonid Kuchma. In 2006, customs were established for a minute of silence at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, flags flown at half-mast, and restrictions on entertainment broadcasting. In 2007, three days of commemorations on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti included video testimonies of communist crimes in Ukraine and documentaries, scholarly lectures, and the National Bank of Ukraine issued a set of commemorative coins.

As of 2009, Ukrainian schoolchildren take a more extensive course of the history of the Holodomor.

The National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide was erected on the slopes of the Dnieper river, welcoming its first visitors on 22 November 2008. The ceremony of the memorial's opening was dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor. The year 2008 was declared by president Viktor Yushchenko as the "Year of Remembrance" to commemorate victims of the famine.

In an October 2013 opinion poll, 33.7% of Ukrainians fully agreed and 30.4% rather agreed with the statement "The Holodomor was the result of actions committed by the Soviet authorities, along with Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and was the result of human actions". In the same poll, 22.9% of those polled fully or partially agreed with the view that the famine was caused by natural circumstances, but 50.5% disagreed with that. Furthermore, 45.4% of respondents believed that the Holodomor was "a deliberate attempt to destroy the Ukrainian nation" and 26.2% rather or completely disagreed with this.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (right) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (left) near Memorial to the Holodomor Victims in Kyiv on 17 May 2010. Russia has since changed its policy and started downplaying or denying the Holodomor.

In a November 2021 poll, 85% agreed that the Holodomor was a genocide of Ukrainians. A poll undertaken in Ukraine in 2022 recorded 93% agreeing that the Holodomor was a genocide with 3% disagreeing.

Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi at an event to mark the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, 25 November 2023

On 19 October 2022, Russian occupation authorities dismantled a Holodomor monument in the destroyed city of Mariupol on the basis that it was not a monument but a symbol of "disinformation at the state level". Ukrainian culture minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said "such acts signifies that the current Russian regime is a true successor to the one guilty of crimes against humanity and the Ukrainian people".

Germany

Perhaps the first public commemoration of victims was a procession held by Ukrainians displaced in the Second World War in 1948 in Munich, the administrative centre of the American zone of occupation in Germany. The most recent countries to recognize Holodomor as a genocide are Germany and Vatican City.

Canada

The first public monument to the Holodomor was erected and dedicated in 1983 outside City Hall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to mark the 50th anniversary of the famine-genocide. Since then, the fourth Saturday in November has in many jurisdictions been marked as the official day of remembrance for people who died as a result of the 1932–1933 Holodomor and political repression.

On 22 November 2008, Ukrainian Canadians marked the beginning of National Holodomor Awareness Week and Holodomor Memorial Day (the fourth Friday of November in Schools and the fourth Saturday of November globally). The success of this initiative is attributed to Valentina Kuryliw, as chair of the National Holodomor Education Committee of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney attended a vigil in Kyiv. In November 2010, Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the Holodomor memorial in Kyiv, although Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych did not join him.

Saskatchewan became the first jurisdiction in North America and the first province in Canada to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide. The Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day Act was introduced in the Saskatchewan Legislature on 6 May 2008, and received royal assent on 14 May 2008.

On 9 April 2009, the province of Ontario unanimously passed bill 147, "The Holodomor Memorial Day Act", which calls for the fourth Saturday in November to be a day of remembrance. This was the first piece of legislation in the Province's history to be introduced with Tri-Partisan sponsorship: the joint initiators of the bill were Dave Levac, MPP for Brant (Liberal Party); Cheri DiNovo, MPP for Parkdale–High Park (NDP); and Frank Klees, MPP for Newmarket–Aurora (PC). MPP Levac was made a chevalier of Ukraine's Order of Merit.

On 2 June 2010, the province of Quebec unanimously passed bill 390, "Memorial Day Act on the great Ukrainian famine and genocide (the Holodomor)".

On 25 September 2010, a new Holodomor monument was unveiled at St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, bearing the inscription "Holodomor: Genocide By Famine in Ukraine 1932–1933" and a section in Ukrainian bearing mention of the 10 million victims.

On 21 September 2014, a statue entitled "Bitter Memories of Childhood" was unveiled outside the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg to memorialize the Holodomor.

A monument to the Holodomor has been erected on Calgary's Memorial Drive, itself originally designated to honour Canadian servicemen of the First World War. The monument is located in the district of Renfrew near Ukrainian Pioneer Park, which pays tribute to the contributions of Ukrainian immigrants to Canada.

On 21 October 2018, a memorial statue was unveiled on Canada Boulevard in Exhibition Place of Toronto. The site provides a place for an annual memorial on the fourth Saturday of November.

Poland

On 16 March 2006, the Senate of the Republic of Poland paid tribute to the victims of the Great Famine and declared it an act of genocide, expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian nation and its efforts to commemorate this crime.

On 22 January 2015, a Holodomor monument was erected in the city of Lublin.

United States

The Ukrainian Weekly reported a meeting taking place on 27 February 1982 in the parish center of the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Great Famine caused by the Soviet authorities. On 20 March 1982, the Ukrainian Weekly also reported a multi-ethnic community meeting that was held on 15 February on the North Shore Drive at the Ukrainian Village in Chicago to commemorate the famine which took the lives of seven million Ukrainians. Other events in commemoration were held in other places around the United States as well.

On 29 May 2008, the city of Baltimore held a candlelight commemoration for the Holodomor at the War Memorial Plaza in front of City Hall. This ceremony was part of the larger international journey of the "International Holodomor Remembrance Torch", which began in Kyiv and made its way through thirty-three countries. Twenty-two other US cities were also visited during the tour. Then-Mayor Sheila Dixon presided over the ceremony and declared 29 May to be "Ukrainian Genocide Remembrance Day in Baltimore". She referred to the Holodomor "among the worst cases of man's inhumanity towards man".

On 2 December 2008, a ceremony was held in Washington, D.C., for the Holodomor Memorial. On 13 November 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama released a statement on Ukrainian Holodomor Remembrance Day. In this, he said that "remembering the victims of the man-made catastrophe of Holodomor provides us an opportunity to reflect upon the plight of all those who have suffered the consequences of extremism and tyranny around the world". NSC Spokesman Mike Hammer released a similar statement on 20 November 2010.

In 2011, the American day of remembrance of Holodomor was held on 19 November. The statement released by the White House Press Secretary reflects on the significance of this date, stating that "in the wake of this brutal and deliberate attempt to break the will of the people of Ukraine, Ukrainians showed great courage and resilience. The establishment of a proud and independent Ukraine twenty years ago shows the remarkable depth of the Ukrainian people's love of freedom and independence".

On 7 November 2015, the Holodomor Genocide Memorial was opened in Washington D.C.

In the 115th Congress, both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives adopted resolutions commemorating the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor, "the Soviet Union's manmade famine that it committed against the people of Ukraine in 1932 and 1933." The Senate Resolution, S. Res. 435 (115th Congress) was adopted on 3 October 2018 and stated that the U.S. Senate "solemnly remembers the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 and extends its deepest sympathies to the victims, survivors, and families of this tragedy."

On 11 December 2018, the United States House of Representatives adopted H. Res. 931 (115th Congress), a resolution extending the House's "deepest sympathies to the victims and survivors of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, and their families" and condemned "the systematic violations of human rights, including the freedom of self-determination and freedom of speech, of the Ukrainian people by the Soviet Government." On 12 May 2022, and at the 117th United States congress, a new H. Res. 1109 was adopted, recognizing the Holodomor as a genocide and the resolution to serve as a reminder of the repressive Soviet policies including the blockade policy that prevented the delivery of humanitarian aid and people from escaping.

On film

The 2019 feature film Mr Jones, starring James Norton and directed by Agnieszka Holland, focuses on Jones and his investigation of and reporting on the Ukrainian famine in the face of political and journalistic opposition. In January 2019, it was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. The film won Grand Prix Golden Lions at the 44th Gdynia Film Festival in September 2019.

Vatican City

On 23 November 2022, Pope Francis held a ceremony to remember the victims of the famine. He referred to the Holodomor as a genocide. "Let us remember long-suffering Ukraine. This Saturday marks the anniversary of the terrible genocide of the Holodomor in 1932–1933 artificially caused by Stalin. Let us pray for the victims of this genocide and pray for the all Ukrainians, the children, the women and the elderly, the babies, who are today suffering the martyrdom of aggression."

Holodomor memorials

Main article: List of Holodomor memorials and monuments
  • First in the world: 1983 Holodomor Monument in Edmonton, Canada First in the world: 1983 Holodomor Monument in Edmonton, Canada
  • Touring van devoted to Holodomor education, seen in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2017 Touring van devoted to Holodomor education, seen in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2017
  • "Light the candle" event at a Holodomor memorial in Kyiv "Light the candle" event at a Holodomor memorial in Kyiv
  • Plaque in Grand Park, Los Angeles, California, United States Plaque in Grand Park, Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Poster by Australian artist Leonid Denysenko Poster by Australian artist Leonid Denysenko
  • Stamp of Ukraine, 1993 Stamp of Ukraine, 1993
  • Monument dedicated to victims of years 1932–1933 famine in Vyshhorod, Ukraine. The authors are Boris Krylov and Oles Sydoruk Monument dedicated to victims of years 1932–1933 famine in Vyshhorod, Ukraine. The authors are Boris Krylov and Oles Sydoruk
  • Holodomor Memorial to Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–1933, Washington DC. Holodomor Memorial to Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–1933, Washington DC.

In culture and the arts

Cinema

Literature

Ulas Samchuk's novel Maria (1934) is dedicated to the Holodomor (English translation published 1952).

Katherine Marsh's book The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (2023) was a finalist in the 2023 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

Theatre

The play Holodomor premiered in Tehran, Iran in February 2021.

See also

Notes

  1. Ukrainian: Голодомо́р, romanizedHolodomor, IPA: [ɦolodoˈmɔr]; derived from морити голодом, moryty holodom, 'to kill by starvation'); Also literally known as "Extermination by Hunger" or "Hunger-extermination"
  2. Ukrainian: великий український голод, romanizedvelykyi ukrainskyi holod
  3. Marples 2009. "Ukrainian scholars who write most regularly on the famine, such as Yurii Shapoval (), Stanislav Kul'chyts'kyi (, , , ), Vasyl Marochko (, ) and Petro Panchenko et al. (), place emphasis on several factors that appear to elucidate the true causes of the famine: the rapid introduction of collectivisation in Ukraine compared to other regions; the unreasonable grain quotas placed upon Ukraine; the closure of the borders of Ukraine and the North Caucasus according to Stalin's directive of 22 January 1933 to prevent the migration of starving peasants; the fact that Ukrainian officials informed Moscow of the situation in Ukraine and the imminence of famine as early as 1932 but without any results; Stalin's letter to Kaganovich of 11 August 1932 that outlined his suspicions of the Ukrainian peasantry and his fear of 'losing Ukraine' (Davies et al.); the fact that the Extraordinary Commission in Ukraine led by Molotov took draconian measures, with its decree of 18 November 1932, confiscating not only grain, but also meat and vegetables, ensuring the inevitability of the peasants starving; the lack of such starvation in other republics, and most specifically Russia and Byelorussia; the link between the famine and the assault on the Ukrainian nation, as manifested by terror and deportations; the purge of cultural and national leaders; and the cessation of the earlier policy of Ukrainisation.
  4. UN signatory nations, 2003. "In the former Soviet Union millions of men, women and children fell victims to the cruel actions and policies of the totalitarian regime. The Great Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor), which took from 7 million to 10 million innocent lives and became a national tragedy for the Ukrainian people. ... s a result of civil war and forced collectivization, leaving deep scars in the consciousness of future generations. ... e deplore the acts and policies that brought about mass starvation and death of millions of people. We do not want to settle scores with the past, it could not be changed, but we are convinced that exposing violations of human rights, preserving historical records and restoring the dignity of victims through acknowledgement of their suffering, will guide future societies and help to avoid similar catastrophes in the future. ...
  5. ^ Britannica "Holodomor". "The Great Famine (Holodomor) of 1932–1933 – a man-made demographic catastrophe unprecedented in peacetime. Of the estimated six to eight million people who died in the Soviet Union, about four to five million were Ukrainians ... Its deliberate nature is underscored by the fact that no physical basis for famine existed in Ukraine ... Soviet authorities set requisition quotas for Ukraine at an impossibly high level. Brigades of special agents were dispatched to Ukraine to assist in procurement, and homes were routinely searched and foodstuffs confiscated ... The rural population was left with insufficient food to feed itself.
  6. Davies, Wheatcroft 2004, (page 437). "It was not until the autumn of 1932 that the restoration of proper crop rotation received the strong support of the authorities (see pp. 231–4). Meanwhile, much damage had been done. Such a dramatic expansion of sown area and reduction of fallow, without improved crop rotation and the careful introduction of alternative means for rejuvenating the soil with fertilisers or manure, was bound to lead to the reduction of yields and an increased likelihood of crop diseases. By 1932, in many regions, and particularly in Ukraine, soil exhaustion and crop diseases were widespread."
  7. The term anodyne administrative measure in the quote means a measure that was not meant to solve the problem but to calm the hungry crowds, or a measure which, in of itself, would not create opposition (See wikt:anodyne). The term 'Anodyne' refers to pain relieving methods, drugs or remedies, used prior to the 20th century.
  8. Werth, 2008. "And while hunger hit the peasants harder than any other group, resulting in the death of millions in atrocious conditions, another form of repression, of a police nature, struck others in Ukraine at the same moment — the political and intellectual elites, from village teachers to national leaders, via the intelligentsia. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians were arrested and punished with camp sentences"
  9. Martin 2001, pp. 306-307. "TsK VKP/b/ and Sovnarkom have received information that in the Kuban and Ukraine a massive outflow of peasants 'for bread' has begun into Belorussia and the Central-Black Earth, Volga, Western, and Moscow regions. / TsK VKP/b/ and Sovnarkom do not doubt that the outflow of peasants, like the outflow from Ukraine last year, was organized by the enemies of Soviet power, the SRs and the agents of Poland, with the goal of agitation 'through the peasantry' ... TsK VKP/b/ and Sovnarkom order the OGPU of Belorussia and the Central-Black Earth, Middle Volga, Western and Moscow regions to immediately arrest all 'peasants' of Ukraine and the North Caucasus who have broken through into the north and, after separating out the counterrevolutionariy elements, to return the rest to their place of residence.' ... Molotov, Stalin
  10. Andriewsky 2015, (page 17). "Finally, new studies have revealed the very selective — indeed, highly politicized — nature of state assistance in Ukraine in 1932–1933. Soviet authorities, as we know, took great pains to guarantee the supply of food to the industrial workforce and to certain other categories of the population — Red Army personnel and their families, for example. As the latest research has shown, however, in the spring of 1933, famine relief itself became an ideological instrument. The aid that was provided in rural Ukraine at the height of the Famine, when much of the population was starving, was directed, first and foremost, to 'conscientious' collective farm workers — those who had worked the highest number of workdays. Rations, as the sources attest, were allocated in connection with spring sowing). The bulk of assistance was delivered in the form of grain seed that was 'lent' to collective farms (from reserves that had been seized in Ukraine) with the stipulation that it would be repaid with interest. State aid, it seems clear, was aimed at trying to salvage the collective farm system and a workforce necessary to maintain it. At the very same time, Party officials announced a campaign to root out 'enemy elements of all kinds who sought to exploit the food problems for their own counter-revolutionary purposes, spreading rumours about the famine and various 'horrors'. Famine-relief, in this way, became yet another way to determine who lived and who died."
  11. Davies, Wheatcroft 2004, (page 109). "In a considerable number of districts in Ukraine and the North Caucasus counter-revolutionary elements – kulaks, former officers, Petlyurians, supporters of the Kuban' Rada and others – were able to penetrate into the kolkhozy as chairmen or influential members of the board, or as bookkeepers and storekeepers, and as brigade leaders at the threshers, and were able to penetrate into the village soviets, land agencies and cooperatives. They attempt to direct the work of these organisations against the interests of the proletarian state and the policy of the party; they try to organise a counter-revolutionary movement, the sabotage of the grain collections, and the sabotage of the village."
  12. Lost births are additional births that would hypothetically have taken place had there been no famine.

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