Holodomor: Blacklisted villages, the Kuban decree, seed seized (December 1932)

1) Time range

1932-12-06 … 1932-12-15

2) Human profile

Stanisław Kosior and Vlas Chubar · First Secretary of the CP(b)U CC; Chairman of the RNK UkrSSR

3) Decisions

1. Blacklisted named villages (first six: two each in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Odesa oblasts)
2. For blacklisted places: all goods and trade stopped, credits called in, food taken as "fines", village sealed by the OGPU
3. 15 Dec: 82 raions denied industrial goods

Affected

37 of 392 raions and at least 400 kolkhozes, over half in Dnipropetrovsk oblast (228 kolkhozes)

Gap

Totals depend on the date and on oblast vs republic lists; the RU Wikipedia mentions black boards only in passing.

UK Wikipedia · Чорні дошкиHolodomor Museum

1) Time range

1932-12-14

2) Human profile

Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov · Joint secret resolution of the VKP(b) CC and SNK USSR

3) Decisions

1. Ordered Ukraine and the North Caucasus to finish procurement by the end of January 1933
2. Blamed the failure on "non-Bolshevik Ukrainization" and ordered purges
3. Switched newspapers, paperwork and schools in the Kuban's Ukrainized raions to Russian
4. Deported the whole stanitsa of Poltavskaya to the north

Affected

Poltavskaya (about 12,000 people); 46,000–63,500 evicted across the Kuban by January 1933; Ukrainian-language institutions in the Kuban

Gap

The key document for the "national" reading (Martin, Graziosi, Applebaum); Davies and Wheatcroft read it as procurement-driven.

EN Wikipedia · Ukrainians in KubanEncyclopedia of Ukraine

1) Time range

1932-12-24 … 1932-12-29

2) Human profile

Lazar Kaganovich · CC Secretary, sent to Kharkiv; with Kosior and the CP(b)U Politburo

3) Decisions

1. CP(b)U CC letter: all kolkhoz stocks, seed included, delivered within five days
2. Made the Ukrainian leadership take kolkhoz seed funds for procurement

Affected

All Ukrainian kolkhozes, stripped of seed and food for spring 1933

Gap

Dated 24 or 29 Dec; how much seed was actually taken is unknown.

Werth, Sciences PoRU Wikipedia

1) Time range

1932-12-27

2) Group profile

TsIK and SNK of the USSR · Decree on a unified passport system and residence registration (Kalinin, Molotov, Yenukidze)Selector: USSR-wide

3) Decisions

1. Introduced internal passports for city dwellers
2. Gave none to kolkhoz peasants, tying them to their villages

Affected

The rural population of the USSR

Gap

Some historians (Shearer) see it as a general policing measure, not a famine measure.

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