Stalin’s Soviet Union · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Soviet postwar famine (1946–47)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “The famine of 1946–47”
1946–1947 — After drought and a ruthless procurement drive, famine returned to Moldavia, Ukraine and parts of Russia. Between about 1 and 1.5 million people died while the state kept large grain reserves and continued exports.
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- High Stalinism (1945–53) (chapter 11 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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