Holodomor: House searches and the movement ban (January 1933)

1) Time range

1933-01-01

2) Human profile

Joseph Stalin · General Secretary of the VKP(b) CC, telegram to the CP(b)U CC and RNK UkrSSR

3) Decisions

1. Promised no repression to anyone handing over "stolen and hidden" grain
2. Threatened the 7 August law for anyone still hiding grain

Affected

Ukrainian village households; searches often took all food, not only grain

Gap

Kulchytsky reads it as the signal for the genocidal phase; Davies and Wheatcroft as a standard procurement threat.

HRECEncyclopedia of Ukraine

1) Time range

1933-01-22

2) Human profile

Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov · Secret directive of the VKP(b) CC and SNK USSR; carried out by the OGPU under Genrikh Yagoda

3) Decisions

1. Blamed the peasant exodus from Ukraine and the Kuban on "enemies" and Polish agents
2. Banned mass departures of peasants from the Ukrainian SSR and the North Caucasus
3. Ordered arriving peasants elsewhere arrested and sent back; stopped rail tickets for peasants

Affected

By 13 Mar 1933: 219,460 peasants detained, 186,588 sent back, 2,823 convicted (OGPU report)

Gap

The split of the 219,460 between Ukraine and the North Caucasus is not known.

EN WikipediaHREC

1) Time range

1933-01-24

2) Group profile

VKP(b) CC · Resolution blaming the CP(b)U for the failed 1932 planSelector: Moscow

3) Decisions

1. Sent Pavel Postyshev as Second Secretary of the CP(b)U CC and head of the Kharkiv party
2. Moved Mendel Khataevich to Dnipropetrovsk; Balytsky took over the Ukrainian GPU

Affected

The CP(b)U apparatus

EN Wikipedia · Pavel PostyshevHREC