WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The dreadful famine that engulfed Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River area in 1932-1933 was the result of Joseph Stalin’s policy of forced collectivization. The heaviest losses occurred in Ukraine, which had been the most productive agricultural area of the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -An Introduction. In 1932 and 1933, millions of Ukrainians were killed in the Holodomor, a man-made famine engineered by the Soviet government of Joseph Stalin.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Holodomor’s Death Toll The Ukrainian famine-known as the Holodomor, a combination of the Ukrainian words for “starvation” and “to inflict death”-by one estimate claimed the lives of 3.9 million people, about 13 percent of the population.

Detailed explanation-4: -Major contributing factors to the famine include: the forced collectivization of agriculture as a part of the First Five-Year Plan, and forced grain procurement, combined with rapid industrialization and a decreasing agricultural workforce.

Detailed explanation-5: -Under the neoclassical growth model, projections of these estimated wedges imply that Stalin’s economic policies led to welfare loss of-24 percent of consumption in 1928-1940, but a +16 percent welfare gain after 1941.