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Holodomor in Ukraine and Kazakhstan: Common features and differences of the largest tragedy of two nations

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The article highlights the issues that deal with famine in Kazakhstan and in Ukraine in 1932–1933 years.

(from COLLECTION OF MATERIALS of International scientific conference «GREAT FAMINE IN KAZAKHSTAN: TRAGEDY OF THE NATION AND THE LESSONS OF HISTORY»)

published in Astana, 2012

The article highlights the issues that deal with famine in Kazakhstan and in Ukraine in 1932–1933 years. Certain common and distinctive features of the tragedy of two nations are characterized, in particular, Bolshevik leaders’ assistance to employ hungry Kazakhs in the surrounding regions of the USSR in order to save them from death and Kremlin’s prohibition for hungry peasants from Ukraine and the Kuban to go beyond their settling for provisions. Keywords: Kazakhstan, Ukraine, the famine of 1932–1933.

V.I. Sergiychuk ,

Professor of the Kiev National

University named after Taras Shevchenko,

Doctor of History

Data was given from the Institute of State History, Committee of Science of The Ministry of Education and Science