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The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 5: The Years of Hunger. Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933

R. W. Davies; Stephen G. Wheatcroft · Palgrave Macmillan · 2004

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Book
Author
R. W. Davies; Stephen G. Wheatcroft
Identifier
DOI 10.1057/9780230273979
Accessed
2026-09-01
Reliability notes
Chapter 13, 'The famine in perspective', p. 401, gives the authors' estimate of excess deaths.

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EstablishedDavies 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.