Holodomor: Mass repression ends, deaths keep rising (April–May 1933)

1) Time range

1933-05-08

2) Human profile

Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov · Secret instruction of the VKP(b) CC and SNK USSR

3) Decisions

1. Declared the kulaks defeated and the kolkhoz system consolidated
2. Ended mass deportations and "mass repression" in the countryside; capped the number of prisoners

Affected

Peasants across the USSR; numbers held in custody reduced

Gap

How quickly it was carried out locally; deaths peaked after it.

HRECEncyclopedia of Ukraine

1) Time range

1933-03-01 … 1933-08-31

2) Group profile

Rural population of the Ukrainian SSR · Peasants and kolkhozniksSelector: About 25.5 million peasants in 1932; 7 oblasts and the Moldavian ASSR

3) Decisions

1. No decision of their own: the months that followed the procurement, the seed seizure and the movement ban

Affected

84% of all famine losses fell in March–August 1933; rural losses 3,655,000 (164.5 per 1,000) vs urban about 287,000 (39.3 per 1,000)

Gap

The RU Wikipedia puts the peak in March–May rather than June.

Wolowyna 2020, Shevchenko SocietyIDSS 2015