Abstract:
The policy of forced collectivization of the Stalinist regime and the resistance of the peasants to it brought several regions of the Soviet Union into a catastrophic famine, which became almost permanent, with periods of exacerbation and relaxation.In the second half of 1932, when 80.3% of the peasant households were „included” in the kolkhozes (collective farms) and the MASSR authorities had already reported on the end of compact collectivization, a terrible famine broke out in the republic, amid a great drought and the Stalinist policy towards the peasantry, accompanied by mass mortality of the population due to malnutrition, which led to the death of tens of thousands of people.
