
15: Ukrainization, Famine, Terror: 1920s – 1930s
The Making of Modern Ukraine
The Irony of Marxism-Leninism
In 1931, agricultural conditions in Ukraine were all worse. Most of the farms have by then been collectivized and collective agriculture just doesn't work as well as private agriculture. So the famine begins in late 31 as the peasants refuse to surrender grain. Local party activists in Ukraine completely, truthfully, report up the ranks that there is famine. There are shortages. They ask that requisitions targets be...
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