★ The Great Famine Flashcards

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★ How many people died in The Great Famine?

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★ 5-8 Million people

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★ What does Robert Conquest believe about the Great Famine?

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★ That there was a deliberate policy to take unrealistic grain quotas in areas that had opposed collectivisation, thus condemning millions of peasants to starvation

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★ Was the Great Famine an accident or man-made?

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★ Man-made, some historians argue that it was created by Stalin to try rid Ukraine of nationalist feelings and therefore lessen opposition to his place in the USSR

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★ What is the Great Famine known as in Ukraine?

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★ Holodomor

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★ Why is it so hard to get an exact number for the amount of people who died in the Great Famine?

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★ It was largely unacknowledged by the USSR and extra officials were drafted to find hidden stocks of grain held by peasants in requisitioning groups

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★ What laws were brought in to ensure Peasant’s handed over their grain?

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★ Law of Seventh-Eighths - 10 year sentence for stealing socialised property (food as little as a few ears of corn) was later changed to the death penalty
★ August & December, 10 year prison sentences for peasants stealing meat before quota was met

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