FamineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1932-06-10 … 1932-06-21
- 2) Human profile
- Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov · General Secretary of the VKP(b) CC; Chairman of the SNK USSR
- 3) Decisions
- Received the 10 June appeal of Hryhorii Petrovsky (Chairman, All-Ukrainian CEC) and Vlas Chubar (Chairman, RNK UkrSSR) describing famine and asking for food aid and a lower plan
- Refused to ease the 1932 plan for Ukraine (Stalin, 18 June)
- Telegram of 21 June: no cut in deliveries, no delay in deadlines
- Affected
- Rural population of 100+ raions that Chubar reported as needing food aid by 10 June 1932
- Gap
- HREC says no direct reply from Stalin is known, while Werth cites dated replies.
Werth, Sciences PoEncyclopedia of Ukraine
FamineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1932-07-06 … 1932-07-09
- 2) Group profile
- Third All-Ukrainian Conference of the CP(b)U · Party conference with Moscow emissaries Molotov and KaganovichSelector: Several hundred delegates (CC members, oblast and raion secretaries), Kharkiv
- 3) Decisions
- Accepted a 1932 procurement plan of about 356 million poods (about 5.8 Mt) for Ukraine
- Most oblast and raion speakers called it unachievable; Molotov and Kaganovich called any easing "anti-Party"
- Kosior, Chubar and Skrypnyk raised the shortfalls but voted for the plan
- Affected
- All kolkhozes and individual farms of the Ukrainian SSR
- Gap
- The published stenogram differs from the archival one (Klid), so who objected may have been edited out.
Werth, Sciences PoCIUS lecture (Klid)