★ The Great Famine

Question 1

★ How many people died in The Great Famine?

Answer 1

★ 5-8 Million people

Question 2

★ What does Robert Conquest believe about the Great Famine?

Answer 2

★ That there was a deliberate policy to take unrealistic grain quotas in areas that had opposed collectivisation, thus condemning millions of peasants to starvation

Question 3

★ Was the Great Famine an accident or man-made?

Answer 3

★ 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

Question 4

★ What is the Great Famine known as in Ukraine?

Answer 4

★ Holodomor

Question 5

★ Why is it so hard to get an exact number for the amount of people who died in the Great Famine?

Answer 5

★ It was largely unacknowledged by the USSR and extra officials were drafted to find hidden stocks of grain held by peasants in requisitioning groups

Question 6

★ What laws were brought in to ensure Peasant’s handed over their grain?

Answer 6

★ 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