Holodomor: Purge and the toll (November–December 1933)

1) Time range

1933-11-18 … 1933-11-22

2) Group profile

CP(b)U CC plenum · Under Kosior (First Secretary) and Postyshev (Second Secretary)Selector: Kharkiv

3) Decisions

1. Kosior declared local nationalism the main danger in Ukraine
2. In the 1933 purge, 237 raion party secretaries and 249 raion executive chairmen were replaced

Affected

About 100,000 party members expelled in Postyshev's first year; Ukrainian intelligentsia

Gap

Purge figures do not add up across sources.

EN WikipediaEN Wikipedia · Pavel Postyshev

1) Time range

1932-01-01 … 1934-12-31

2) Group profile

Population of the Ukrainian SSR · 1932 borders: 7 oblasts and the Moldavian ASSRSelector: About 32.7 million people in 1932

3) Decisions

1. No decision of their own

Affected

3,942,500 excess deaths (133.3 per 1,000) plus about 600,000 lost births (Institute of Demography, 2015; the 2010 Kyiv court used 3,941,000)

Gap

Serious studies range from 1.8 million (Wheatcroft) to 4.8 million; political figures of 7–10 million are not demographic. Infoboxes: EN 3.5–5 million, RU 3.5–5 million (with Shubin's 1–2 million), UK 2.6–10.5 million.

IDSS 2015Levchuk et al. 2020