Soviet Famines

As the historian James Mace has correctly written, the Soviet famines of 1931-1933 which struck many regions of the U S S R (especially Ukraine, Kazakhstan and regions of the Volga), were an unprecedented catastrophe in which meteorology played merely a tiny part. These were “man-made famines”, a direct consequence of a policy of extreme violence – forced collectivization campaigns – implemented by the Stalinist regime in 1930. As a direct consequence of a specific policy, but obviously not p..