★ The Great Famine Flashcards
★ How many people died in The Great Famine?
★ 5-8 Million people
★ What does Robert Conquest believe about the Great Famine?
★ That there was a deliberate policy to take unrealistic grain quotas in areas that had opposed collectivisation, thus condemning millions of peasants to starvation
★ Was the Great Famine an accident or man-made?
★ 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
★ What is the Great Famine known as in Ukraine?
★ Holodomor
★ Why is it so hard to get an exact number for the amount of people who died in the Great Famine?
★ It was largely unacknowledged by the USSR and extra officials were drafted to find hidden stocks of grain held by peasants in requisitioning groups
★ What laws were brought in to ensure Peasant’s handed over their grain?
★ 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