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Kazakh famine of 1930–1933

Kazakh famine of 1930–1933

AsharshylyqАшаршылықThe cube at the site for the future monument for victims of the famine (dated 1931–1933) in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan. The monument itself was built in 2017.CountrySoviet UnionLocationKazakhstan, Russian SFSRPeriod1930–1933Total deaths1.5–2.3 millionRefugees665,000 to 1.1 millionCausesForced collectivization under Filipp GoloshchyokinEffect on demographics38-42% of the entire Kazakh population diedConsequencesKazakhs reduced from 60% to 38% of the republic's population; sedentarization of the nomadic Kazakh peoplePreceded byKazakh famine of 1919–1922 Mass repressionin the Soviet Union Economic repression War communism Collectivization Dekulakization Soviet famine of 1930–1933 Ukraine Kazakhstan Political repression Red Terror Purges of the Communist Party Great Purge Gulag Punitive psychiatry Ideological repression Religion 1917–1921 1921–1928 1928–1941 1958–1964 1975–1987 Christianity Islam Judaism Legislation Science Censorship Images Art Ethnic repression De-Cossackization National operations Population transfers Repressions of Poles Ukrainian language suppression Bibliographies Bibliography of the Asharshylyk Bibliography