The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 5: The Years of Hunger. Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933
R. W. Davies,Stephen G. Wheatcroft — The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 5: The Years of Hunger. Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 (2004)R. W. Davies; Stephen G. Wheatcroft · 2004 · Book · ch. 13, p. 401EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-1109 · as of 2026-10-30 · about: Soviet Union: party-state, central planning and terror (1922–1953) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Davies and Wheatcroft estimate that the Soviet famines of 1930–1933, including the Kazakh famine and the rural famine of 1932–33, caused probably 5.5 to 6.5 million excess deaths.”
Context. The authors note that published estimates range from 4.5 to 8 million and regard both extremes as implausible. Whether the Ukrainian famine was a genocide is disputed; this claim concerns the death toll only.
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