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This document summarizes a paper about the catastrophic famine that occurred in Kazakhstan between 1932-1933. It provides background on the Soviet collectivization and dekulakization policies of the late 1920s and early 1930s. It argues that Stalin prioritized forced grain procurement above all else, using it as a tool to tightly control and extract surplus from agriculture. His uncompromising policies, enforced brutally across the Soviet Union including Kazakhstan, ultimately led to the famine that cost 1.

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Yasin Jafarov

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