The Famine Flashcards
From what year did the famine start and end?
1932~1933
What does Holodomor mean?
Death by starvation
What was Ukraine’s name when it gained independence?
Ukrainian National Republic
What was Ukraine’s name when it was incorporated into the USSR?
Ukrainian Socialists Soviet Republic
Ukrainian people made their own food and fed themselves. What is this called?
Self-reliance
What was Ukraine known for?
farmland, for being a breadbasket
What was the goal of Stalin’s five year plan?
To industrialise all of the Soviet Union at a rapid pace
What is the collectivisation of agriculture?
Consolidating individual farms
What did Stalin name the Ukrainian farmers?
A Kulak
What does kulak mean?
a wealthy peasant (being wealthy was considered bad because people were trying to equalise power. however, this wasn’t the case; many Ukrainian farmers were poor
What did Stalin do to Kulaks?
he killed them and starved them to death
What is a quota?
an amount of grain the Ukrainian farmers had to collect in order to keep their job
How much grain was taken from Ukraine?
4.27 million tons
What would happen to people caught taking the food?
・10 years of imprisonment
・death penalty
What happened to farms that were blacklisted?
The farmers were torn apart from food and prohibited from receiving any supplies
