FamineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1932-10-22
- 2) Group profile
- Politburo of the VKP(b) CC · Created two extraordinary grain commissionsSelector: Moscow
- 3) Decisions
- Ukraine: commission of Viacheslav Molotov (Chairman, SNK USSR), in Kharkiv until 23 Nov 1932
- North Caucasus: commission of Lazar Kaganovich (CC Secretary)
- Gave both emergency powers over procurement
- Affected
- Kolkhozes of Ukraine (about 22% of the annual plan met) and the North Caucasus (about 18%)
- Gap
- Commission membership beyond the two leaders is from general literature; the plan baseline is given as 356 or 510 million poods.
KHPG archiveWerth, Sciences Po
FamineMedium confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1932-11-01 … 1932-11-12
- 2) Human profile
- Lazar Kaganovich · CC Secretary, head of the Politburo commission; with Boris Sheboldaev, First Secretary of the North Caucasus kraikom
- 3) Decisions
- Put the stanitsas Novorozhdestvenskaya, Medvedovskaya and Temirgoevskaya on the black board
- Cut off goods, called in credits and removed 358 of 716 Kuban party secretaries
- Told Medvedovskaya villagers they would be deported north
- Affected
- Kuban Cossack, largely Ukrainian-speaking population
- Gap
- The full list of blacklisted stanitsas and the exact date of the kraikom resolution (4 Nov is often cited) are not verified.
EN Wikipedia · Ukrainians in KubanWerth, Sciences Po
FamineMedium confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1932-11-03 … 1932-11-08
- 2) Human profile
- Vyacheslav Molotov and Mendel Khataevich · Commission head; Second Secretary of the CP(b)U CC. Stalin co-signed on 8 Nov
- 3) Decisions
- Stopped industrial goods to 28 raions in four oblasts and ordered lists of "saboteur" households
- 8 Nov: stopped goods to every lagging village in Ukraine until the plan was met
- Set up mobile courts for procurement cases
- Affected
- 28 raions at first, then every lagging Ukrainian village
- Gap
- The 8 Nov embargo appears in the UK Wikipedia but not in the EN article.
UK WikipediaEncyclopedia of Ukraine