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== Overview ==
== Overview ==
Despite being widely consider to have been mostly man-made, there were some natural factors that exacerbated the crisis. The most important natural factor in the famine was the Zhut from 1927 to 1928, which was a period of extreme cold in which cattle were starved and were unable to graze.<ref> https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-hungry-steppe-famine-violence-and-the-making-of-soviet-kazakhstan-by-sarah-cameron/ </ref><ref name="Wheatcroft 2020">{{cite journal|last=Wheatcroft|first=Stephen G.|date=August 2020|title=The Complexity of the Kazakh Famine: Food Problems and Faulty Perceptions|journal=Journal of Genocide Research|volume=23|issue=4|pages=593–597|doi=10.1080/14623528.2020.1807143|s2cid=225333205}}</ref> In 1928, the Soviet authorities started a campaign to confiscate cattle from richer Kazakhs, who were called bai, known as Small October. The confiscation campaign was carried out by Kazakhs against other Kazakhs, and it was up to those Kazakhs to decide who was a bai and how much to confiscate from them.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cameron|first=Sarah|year=2018|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ|title=The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan|publisher=Cornell University Press|page=71|isbn=9781501730443}}</ref> This engagement was intended to make Kazakhs active participants in the transformation of Kazakh society.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cameron|first=Sarah|year=2018|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ|title=The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan|publisher=Cornell University Press|page=72|isbn=9781501730443}}</ref> More than 10,000 bais may have been deported due to the campaign against them.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cameron|first=Sarah|year=2018|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ|title=The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan|publisher=Cornell University Press|page=95|isbn=9781501730443}}</ref> Kazakhstan's livestock and grain were largely acquired between 1929 and 1932, with one-third of the republic's cereals being requisitioned and more than 1 million tons confiscated in 1930 to provide food for the cities. Historian [[Stephen G. Wheatcroft]] attributes the famine to the falsification of statistics produced by the local Soviet authorities to satisfy the unrealistic expectations of their superiors that lead to the over extraction of Kazakh resources.<ref name="Wheatcroft 2020"/>
Despite being widely consider to have been mostly man-made, there were some natural factors that exacerbated the crisis. The most important natural factor in the famine was the Zhut from 1927 to 1928, which was a period of extreme cold in which cattle were starved and were unable to graze.<ref> {{Cite web|last=Bird|first=Joshua|date=2019-04-13|title=“The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan” by Sarah Cameron|url=https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-hungry-steppe-famine-violence-and-the-making-of-soviet-kazakhstan-by-sarah-cameron/|access-date=2021-11-17|language=en-US}} </ref><ref name="Wheatcroft 2020">{{cite journal|last=Wheatcroft|first=Stephen G.|date=August 2020|title=The Complexity of the Kazakh Famine: Food Problems and Faulty Perceptions|journal=Journal of Genocide Research|volume=23|issue=4|pages=593–597|doi=10.1080/14623528.2020.1807143|s2cid=225333205}}</ref> In 1928, the Soviet authorities started a campaign to confiscate cattle from richer Kazakhs, who were called bai, known as Small October. The confiscation campaign was carried out by Kazakhs against other Kazakhs, and it was up to those Kazakhs to decide who was a bai and how much to confiscate from them.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cameron|first=Sarah|year=2018|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ|title=The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan|publisher=Cornell University Press|page=71|isbn=9781501730443}}</ref> This engagement was intended to make Kazakhs active participants in the transformation of Kazakh society.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cameron|first=Sarah|year=2018|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ|title=The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan|publisher=Cornell University Press|page=72|isbn=9781501730443}}</ref> More than 10,000 bais may have been deported due to the campaign against them.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cameron|first=Sarah|year=2018|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ|title=The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan|publisher=Cornell University Press|page=95|isbn=9781501730443}}</ref> Kazakhstan's livestock and grain were largely acquired between 1929 and 1932, with one-third of the republic's cereals being requisitioned and more than 1 million tons confiscated in 1930 to provide food for the cities. Historian [[Stephen G. Wheatcroft]] attributes the famine to the falsification of statistics produced by the local Soviet authorities to satisfy the unrealistic expectations of their superiors that lead to the over extraction of Kazakh resources.<ref name="Wheatcroft 2020"/>


Some Kazakhs were expelled from their land to make room for 200,000 "special settlers" and Gulag prisoners,<ref>{{cite book|last=Cameron|first=Sarah|year=2018|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ|title=The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan|publisher=Cornell University Press|page=175|isbn=9781501730443}}</ref> and some of the little Kazakh food went to such prisoners and settlers as well.<ref name="Cameron 2018, p. 99">{{cite book|last=Cameron|first=Sarah|year=2018|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ|title=The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan|publisher=Cornell University Press|page=99|isbn=9781501730443}}</ref> Food aid to the Kazakhs was selectively distributed to eliminate class enemies such as the aforementioned bais.<ref>Kindler, Robert (2018). Stalin's Nomads: Power and Famine in Kazakhstan. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 176</ref> Despite orders from above to the contrary, many Kazakhs were denied food aid as local officials considered them unproductive, and aid was provided to European workers in the country instead.<ref>Kindler, Robert (2018). Stalin's Nomads: Power and Famine in Kazakhstan. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 177.</ref> The Kazakh victims of the famine were widely discriminated against and expelled from virtually every sector of Kazakhstan's society despite the fact that the Soviet government had no top down order for this to be done.<ref>Kindler, Robert (2018). Stalin's Nomads: Power and Famine in Kazakhstan. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 180.</ref> In 1932, 32 out of less than 200 districts in Kazakhstan that did not meet grain production quotas were [[Blacklisting (Soviet policy)|blacklisted]], meaning that they were prohibited from trading with other villages.<ref name="Pianciola 2020">{{cite journal|last=Pianciola|first=Niccolò|date=August 2020|title=Environment, Empire, and the Great Famine in Stalin's Kazakhstan|journal=Journal of Genocide Research|volume=23|issue=4|pages=588–592|doi=10.1080/14623528.2020.1807140|s2cid=225294912}}</ref> This policy of blacklisting was also used in Ukraine. Near the end of the Kazakh famine, [[Filipp Goloshchyokin]] was replaced with [[Levon Mirzoyan]], who was repressive particularly toward famine refugees and denied food aid to areas run by cadres who asked for more food for their regions using, in the words of Sarah Cameron, "teary telegrams"; in one instance under Mirzoyan's rule, a plenipotentiary shoved food aid documents into his pocket and had a wedding celebration instead of transferring them for a whole month while hundreds of Kazakhs starved.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cameron|first=Sarah|year=2018|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ|title=The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan|publisher=Cornell University Press|page=162|isbn=9781501730443}}</ref>
Some Kazakhs were expelled from their land to make room for 200,000 "special settlers" and Gulag prisoners,<ref>{{cite book|last=Cameron|first=Sarah|year=2018|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ|title=The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan|publisher=Cornell University Press|page=175|isbn=9781501730443}}</ref> and some of the little Kazakh food went to such prisoners and settlers as well.<ref name="Cameron 2018, p. 99">{{cite book|last=Cameron|first=Sarah|year=2018|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ|title=The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan|publisher=Cornell University Press|page=99|isbn=9781501730443}}</ref> Food aid to the Kazakhs was selectively distributed to eliminate class enemies such as the aforementioned bais.<ref>Kindler, Robert (2018). Stalin's Nomads: Power and Famine in Kazakhstan. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 176</ref> Despite orders from above to the contrary, many Kazakhs were denied food aid as local officials considered them unproductive, and aid was provided to European workers in the country instead.<ref>Kindler, Robert (2018). Stalin's Nomads: Power and Famine in Kazakhstan. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 177.</ref> The Kazakh victims of the famine were widely discriminated against and expelled from virtually every sector of Kazakhstan's society despite the fact that the Soviet government had no top down order for this to be done.<ref>Kindler, Robert (2018). Stalin's Nomads: Power and Famine in Kazakhstan. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 180.</ref> In 1932, 32 out of less than 200 districts in Kazakhstan that did not meet grain production quotas were [[Blacklisting (Soviet policy)|blacklisted]], meaning that they were prohibited from trading with other villages.<ref name="Pianciola 2020">{{cite journal|last=Pianciola|first=Niccolò|date=August 2020|title=Environment, Empire, and the Great Famine in Stalin's Kazakhstan|journal=Journal of Genocide Research|volume=23|issue=4|pages=588–592|doi=10.1080/14623528.2020.1807140|s2cid=225294912}}</ref> This policy of blacklisting was also used in Ukraine. Near the end of the Kazakh famine, [[Filipp Goloshchyokin]] was replaced with [[Levon Mirzoyan]], who was repressive particularly toward famine refugees and denied food aid to areas run by cadres who asked for more food for their regions using, in the words of Sarah Cameron, "teary telegrams"; in one instance under Mirzoyan's rule, a plenipotentiary shoved food aid documents into his pocket and had a wedding celebration instead of transferring them for a whole month while hundreds of Kazakhs starved.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cameron|first=Sarah|year=2018|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/a-ZmDwAAQBAJ|title=The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan|publisher=Cornell University Press|page=162|isbn=9781501730443}}</ref>
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Two thirds of the Kazakh survivors of the famine were successfully [[sedentarized]] due to the 80% reduction of their herds, the impossibility of resuming pastoral activity in the immediate post-famine environment, and the repatriation and resettlement program undertaken by Soviet authorities.<ref>Ohayon, Isabelle, 2006, La Sédentarisation des Kazakhs dans the USSR de Stalin. Collectivization et changement social (1928-1945). Maisonneuve et Larose.</ref> Despite this, Niccolò Pianciola says that the Soviet campaign to destroy nomadism was quickly rejected after the famine, and that nomadism even experienced a resurgence during World War II after the transfer of livestock from Nazi-occupied territories.<ref name="Pianciola 2020"/>
Two thirds of the Kazakh survivors of the famine were successfully [[sedentarized]] due to the 80% reduction of their herds, the impossibility of resuming pastoral activity in the immediate post-famine environment, and the repatriation and resettlement program undertaken by Soviet authorities.<ref>Ohayon, Isabelle, 2006, La Sédentarisation des Kazakhs dans the USSR de Stalin. Collectivization et changement social (1928-1945). Maisonneuve et Larose.</ref> Despite this, Niccolò Pianciola says that the Soviet campaign to destroy nomadism was quickly rejected after the famine, and that nomadism even experienced a resurgence during World War II after the transfer of livestock from Nazi-occupied territories.<ref name="Pianciola 2020"/>


A monument for the famine's victims was constructed in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/kazakhstan-unveils-monument-victims-soviet-era-famine/28520523.html|title=Kazakhstan Unveils Monument to Victims of Soviet-Era Famine}}</ref> The [[Turkic Council]] has described the famine as a "criminal Stalinist ethnic policy".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.turkkon.org/en/haberler/message-of-the-turkic-council-secretary-general-on-the-occasion-of-the-remembrance-day-of-the-victims-of-political-repressions-and-starvation_2255|title=Message of the Turkic Council Secretary General on the occasion of the Remembrance Day of the Victims of Political Repressions and Starvation.|date=31 May 2021|publisher=Turkic Council}}</ref> A genocide remembrance day is commenced on 31 May for the victims of the famine.
A monument for the famine's victims was constructed in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/kazakhstan-unveils-monument-victims-soviet-era-famine/28520523.html|title=Kazakhstan Unveils Monument to Victims of Soviet-Era Famine}}</ref> The [[Turkic Council]] has described the famine as a "criminal Stalinist ethnic policy".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.turkkon.org/en/haberler/message-of-the-turkic-council-secretary-general-on-the-occasion-of-the-remembrance-day-of-the-victims-of-political-repressions-and-starvation_2255|title=Message of the Turkic Council Secretary General on the occasion of the Remembrance Day of the Victims of Political Repressions and Starvation.|date=31 May 2021|publisher=Turkic Council}}</ref> A genocide remembrance day is commenced on 31 May for the victims of the famine.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Richter|first=James|date=2020-05|title=Famine, Memory, and Politics in the Post-Soviet Space: Contrasting Echoes of Collectivization in Ukraine and Kazakhstan|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/abs/famine-memory-and-politics-in-the-postsoviet-space-contrasting-echoes-of-collectivization-in-ukraine-and-kazakhstan/A50AB1E3CDAD358A19800A18DB1C03C3|journal=Nationalities Papers|language=en|volume=48|issue=3|pages=476–491|doi=10.1017/nps.2019.17|issn=0090-5992}}</ref>


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Kazakh famine of 1930–1933
The cube at the site for the future monument for victims of the famine (1931–1933) in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, the monument itself was built in 2017.[1]
CountrySoviet Union
LocationKazakhstan, Russian SFSR
Period1930–1933[2]
Total deaths1.5 to 2.3 million[3]
ConsequencesKazakhs reduced from 60% to 38% of the republic's population,[4][5][6][7] sedentarization of the nomadic Kazakh people.[8]
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The Kazakh famine of 1931–1933, also known as Asharshylyk and Zulmat and the Kazakh catastrophe,[9][page needed] was a famine where 1.5 million people died in Soviet Kazakhstan, then part of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in the Soviet Union, of whom 1.3 million were ethnic Kazakhs.[3] An estimated 38[7] to 42[10] percent of all Kazakhs died, the highest percentage of any ethnic group killed by the Soviet famine of 1932–1933. Other sources state that as many as 2.0 to 2.3 million died.[11]

The famine began in winter 1930, a full year before the other famine in Ukraine, termed the Holodomor, with the height in the years 1931–1933.[12][13][14] The famine made Kazakhs a minority in the Kazakh ASSR, caused by the massive amount of people who died or migrated, and not until the 1990's, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, did the Kazakhs become the largest ethnicity group in Kazakhstan again. Before the famine, around 60% of the republic's residents were ethnic Kazakhs, a proportion greatly reduced to around 38% of the population after the famine.[4][5][6][7] The famine is seen by some scholars to belong to the wider history of collectivization in the Soviet Union and part of the Soviet famine of 1932–1933.[13]

Some historians and scholars describe the famine as a genocide of the Kazakhs perpetrated by the Soviet state.[15] In Kazakhstan, some studies repeated the Soviet explanation of the genocide, terming it as the Goloshchyokin genocide[16] (Kazakh: Голощёкин геноциді / Goloşekindık genotsid, Kazakh pronunciation: [ɡɐləˌʂʲokʲinˈdək ɡʲinɐˈt͡sɪt]) after Filipp Goloshchyokin to emphasize its man-made nature.[5] Goloshchyokin was the First Secretary of the Communist Party in the Kazakh ASSR and is also known as one of the primary perpetrators of the killing of the Romanov family.

Overview

Despite being widely consider to have been mostly man-made, there were some natural factors that exacerbated the crisis. The most important natural factor in the famine was the Zhut from 1927 to 1928, which was a period of extreme cold in which cattle were starved and were unable to graze.[17][18] In 1928, the Soviet authorities started a campaign to confiscate cattle from richer Kazakhs, who were called bai, known as Small October. The confiscation campaign was carried out by Kazakhs against other Kazakhs, and it was up to those Kazakhs to decide who was a bai and how much to confiscate from them.[19] This engagement was intended to make Kazakhs active participants in the transformation of Kazakh society.[20] More than 10,000 bais may have been deported due to the campaign against them.[21] Kazakhstan's livestock and grain were largely acquired between 1929 and 1932, with one-third of the republic's cereals being requisitioned and more than 1 million tons confiscated in 1930 to provide food for the cities. Historian Stephen G. Wheatcroft attributes the famine to the falsification of statistics produced by the local Soviet authorities to satisfy the unrealistic expectations of their superiors that lead to the over extraction of Kazakh resources.[18]

Some Kazakhs were expelled from their land to make room for 200,000 "special settlers" and Gulag prisoners,[22] and some of the little Kazakh food went to such prisoners and settlers as well.[23] Food aid to the Kazakhs was selectively distributed to eliminate class enemies such as the aforementioned bais.[24] Despite orders from above to the contrary, many Kazakhs were denied food aid as local officials considered them unproductive, and aid was provided to European workers in the country instead.[25] The Kazakh victims of the famine were widely discriminated against and expelled from virtually every sector of Kazakhstan's society despite the fact that the Soviet government had no top down order for this to be done.[26] In 1932, 32 out of less than 200 districts in Kazakhstan that did not meet grain production quotas were blacklisted, meaning that they were prohibited from trading with other villages.[27] This policy of blacklisting was also used in Ukraine. Near the end of the Kazakh famine, Filipp Goloshchyokin was replaced with Levon Mirzoyan, who was repressive particularly toward famine refugees and denied food aid to areas run by cadres who asked for more food for their regions using, in the words of Sarah Cameron, "teary telegrams"; in one instance under Mirzoyan's rule, a plenipotentiary shoved food aid documents into his pocket and had a wedding celebration instead of transferring them for a whole month while hundreds of Kazakhs starved.[28]

Casualties

It was the most severe of all regions affected by famine, percentage-wise, although more people died in the Ukrainian Holodomor which began a year later.[29] In addition to the Kazakh famine of 1919–1922, Kazakhstan lost more than half of its population in 10–15 years due to the actions of the Soviet state.[30][31] The two Soviet censuses indicated that the number of Kazakhs in Kazakhstan dropped from 3,637,612 in 1926 to 2,181,520 in 1937.[32] Ethnic minorities in Kazakhstan were also significantly affected. The Ukrainian population in Kazakhstan decreased from 859,396 to 549,859[13] (a reduction of almost 36% of their population) while other ethnic minorities in Kazakhstan lost 12% and 30% of their populations.[13] Ukrainians who died in Kazakhstan are sometimes considered victims of Holodomor.[citation needed]

Refugees

"The old aul is now breaking apart, it is moving toward settled life, toward the use of hay fields, toward land cultivation; it is moving from worse land to better land, to state farms, to industry, to collective farm construction."[33]

—Filipp Goloshchyokin, First Secretary of the Kazakh Regional Committee of the Communist Party

Due to starvation, 665,000 Kazakhs fled the famine with their cattle outside Kazakhstan to China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Iran, and the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Russia in search of food and employment in the new industrialization sites of Western Siberia with 900,000 head of cattle.[13] The Soviet government worked later to repatriate them.[34] This repatriation process could be brutal as Kazakhs homes were broken into with refugee and non-refugee ethnic Kazakhs being forcibly expelled onto train cars without food, heating, or water.[35] 70% of the refugees survived and the rest died due to epidemics and hunger.[13] Refugees were integrated into collective farms as they were repatriated where many were too weak to work, and in a factory within Semipalatinsk half the refugees were fired within a few day with the other half being denied food rations.[36]

Another estimate is that 1.1 million people fled, the vast majority of them Kazakhs.[37] As the refugees fled the famine, the Soviet government made some attempts to stop them.[38] In one case, relief dealers placed food in the back of a truck to attract refugees, and then locked the refugees inside the truck and dumped them in the middle of the mountains;[39] the fate of these refugees is unknown.[39] Thousands of Kazakhs were shot dead, and some were even raped in their attempt to flee to China.[40] The flight of refugees was framed by authorities as a progressive occurrence of nomads moving away from their primitive lifestyle.[41] Famine refugees were suspected by OGPU officials of maintaining counterrevolutionary, bai, and kulak tendencies which was reinforced by some refugees engaging in crime in the republics they arrived in.[42]

Cannibalism

Some of the starving in Kazakhstan devolved into cannibalism ranging from eating leftover corpses to the famished actively murdering each other in order to feed.[43][44]

Aftermath and Legacy

Two thirds of the Kazakh survivors of the famine were successfully sedentarized due to the 80% reduction of their herds, the impossibility of resuming pastoral activity in the immediate post-famine environment, and the repatriation and resettlement program undertaken by Soviet authorities.[45] Despite this, Niccolò Pianciola says that the Soviet campaign to destroy nomadism was quickly rejected after the famine, and that nomadism even experienced a resurgence during World War II after the transfer of livestock from Nazi-occupied territories.[27]

A monument for the famine's victims was constructed in 2017.[46] The Turkic Council has described the famine as a "criminal Stalinist ethnic policy".[47] A genocide remembrance day is commenced on 31 May for the victims of the famine.[48]

  • Soviet famine of 1932–1933 displaying migrations out of Kazakhstan and the high estimate of 2.3 million deaths. Other scholars estimate an amount of 1.5 million deaths.
    Soviet famine of 1932–1933 displaying migrations out of Kazakhstan and the high estimate of 2.3 million deaths. Other scholars estimate an amount of 1.5 million deaths.
  • The major ethnic groups in Kazakhstan, 1897–1970. The number of Kazakhs and Ukrainians decreased in the 1930s due to the famine.
    The major ethnic groups in Kazakhstan, 1897–1970. The number of Kazakhs and Ukrainians decreased in the 1930s due to the famine.

Assessment

Some historians and scholars consider that this famine amounted to genocide of the Kazakhs.[15] The Soviet authorities undertook a campaign of persecution against the nomads in the Kazakhs, believing that the destruction of the class was a worthy sacrifice for the collectivization of Kazakhstan.[49][50] Europeans in Kazakhstan had disproportionate power in the party which has been argued as a cause of why indigenous nomads suffered the worst part of the collectivization process rather than the European sections of the country.[51]

Regarding the Kazakh catastrophe, Michael Ellman states that it "seems to be an example of 'negligent genocide' which falls outside the scope of the UN Convention".[52] Historian Robert Kindler refuses to call the famine a genocide, commenting that doing so masks the culpability of lower-level cadres who were locally rooted among the Kazakhs themselves.[53] Historian Sarah Cameron posits that while Stalin did not intend to starve Kazakhs, he saw some deaths as a necessary sacrifice to achieve the political and economic goals of the regime.[23] Cameron believes that while the famine combined with a campaign against nomads was not genocide in the sense of the Genocide Convention definition, it complies with Raphael Lemkin's original concept of genocide, which considered destruction of culture to be as genocidal as physical annihilation.[18] Historian Stephen G. Wheatcroft criticizes this view because he believes that the high expectations of central planners were sufficient to demonstrate their ignorance of the ultimate consequences of their actions. Wheatcroft views the state's policies during the famine as criminal acts, though not as intentional murder or genocide.[18] Niccolò Pianciola comments that from Lemkin's point of view on genocide all nomads of the Soviet Union were victims of the crime, not just the Kazakhs.[27]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Kazakhstan Unveils Monument To Victims Of Soviet-Era Famine".
  2. ^ "The Kazakh Famine of the 1930s". 24 August 2016.
  3. ^ a b Volkava, Elena (26 March 2012). "The Kazakh Famine of 1930–33 and the Politics of History in the Post-Soviet Space". Wilson Center. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  4. ^ a b Татимов М. Б. Социальная обусловленность демографических процессов. Алма-Ата,1989. С.124
  5. ^ a b c Қазақстан тарихы: Аса маңызды кезеңдері мен ғылыми мәселелері. Жалпы білім беретін мектептің қоғамдык- гуманитарлық бағытындағы 11-сыныбына арналған оқулық / М.Қойгелдиев, Ә.Төлеубаев, Ж.Қасымбаев, т.б. — Алматы: «Мектеп» баспасы, 2007. — 304 бет,суретті. ISBN 9965-36-106-1
  6. ^ a b "Запомнил и долю казахов в пределах своей республики - 28%. А за тридцать лет до того они составляли у себя дома уверенное большинство".
  7. ^ a b c Pianciola, Niccolò (1 January 2001). "The Collectivization Famine in Kazakhstan, 1931–1933". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 25 (3/4): 237–251. JSTOR 41036834. PMID 20034146.
  8. ^ Isabelle, Ohayon (13 January 2016). "The Kazakh Famine: The Beginnings of Sedentarization".
  9. ^ Conquest, Robert (1987). The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-famine.
  10. ^ Getty, J. Arch; Manning, Roberta Thompson, eds. (1993). Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. p. 265. ISBN 9780521446709.
  11. ^ Pannier, Bruce (28 December 2007). "Kazakhstan: The Forgotten Famine". Rferl.org. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  12. ^ Cameron, Sarah. "The Kazakh famine of 1930-1933: Current research and new directions". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ^ a b c d e f Isabelle, Ohayon (13 January 2016). "The Kazakh Famine: The Beginnings of Sedentarization".
  14. ^ Pannier, Bruce (28 December 2007). "Kazakhstan: The Forgotten Famine". Rferl.org. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  15. ^ a b Sabol, Steven (2017). 'The Touch of Civilization': Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization. University Press of Colorado. p. 47. ISBN 9781607325505.
  16. ^ Cameron, Sarah. "The Kazakh famine of 1930-1933: Current research and new directions". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  17. ^ Bird, Joshua (13 April 2019). ""The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan" by Sarah Cameron". Retrieved 17 November 2021.
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