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Kazakh famine of 1919–1922
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The Kazakh famine of 1919–1922,[1] also referred to as the Turkestan famine of 1919–1922,[3] was a period of mass starvation and drought that took place in the Kirghiz ASSR (present-day Kazakhstan) and Turkestan ASSR as a result of the Russian Civil War,[4][5][6] in which 400,000[1] to 750,000[2] peasants died. The event was part of the greater Russian famine of 1921–22 that affected other parts of what became the Soviet Union,[7] in which up to 10,000,000 people died in total.[8][9]
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Country | Soviet Union |
Location | Kirghiz ASSR and Turkestan ASSR |
Period | 1919–1922 |
Total deaths | 100,000[1]–1million[2] |
Causes | Droughts, failures of collectivization and Prodrazvyorstka |
Relief | Aid provided by the Workers International Relief, and American Relief Administration |
Effect on demographics | 10% to 19% of the Kazakh population died |
Preceded by | Russian famine of 1891–92 |
Succeeded by | Kazakh famine of 1932–33 |
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