HISTORY
THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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war with Chechnya and Armenia
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forced collectivization by the government
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lack of arable land in the region
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movement of workers to Siberia
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. Sources disagree on the possible role of drought.
Detailed explanation-2: -The im-possibly high quotas meant grain that would be normally be eaten by farmers was confiscated and sent to other parts of the Soviet Union or sold abroad. As a result, millions, mostly rural Ukrainians, went hungry.
Detailed explanation-3: -Output fell, but the government, nevertheless, extracted the large amounts of agricultural products it needed to acquire the capital for industrial investment. This caused a major famine in the countryside (1932–33) and the deaths of millions of peasants.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1932 and 1933, millions of Ukrainians were killed in the Holodomor, a man-made famine engineered by the Soviet government of Joseph Stalin.