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1 See Anne Appelbaum, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine (New York: Allen Lane, 2017), and my criticism Stephen G. Wheatcroft, “The Turn Away From Economic Explanations for Soviet Famines,†Contemporary European History 27, no. 3 (2018): 465-469.
2 R.W. Davies and Stephen G. Wheatcroft, “Further Thoughts on the First Soviet Five Year Plan,†Slavic Review, no. 4 (1974): 790-802.
3 Pyatiletnii Plan Nar. Khoz. Stroitel’stva SSSR, vol. 3, Moscow 1929, 316.
4 R.W. Davies and Stephen G. Wheatcroft, The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-33 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,2004).
5 Stephen G. Wheatcroft, “Soviet Statistics under Stalinism: Reliability and Distortions in Grain and Population Statistics,†Europe Asia Studies 71, no. 6 (2019): 1013-35
6 Major losses from the severe late-spring frosts that periodically decimated the nomadic herds.
7 GARF 6985/1/19, ll. 109-112 showing cattle number falling by 12.6% from 1928 to 1929 and horse numbers by 1.3%.
8 Davies and Wheatcroft, The Years of Hunger, 441.
9 A.S. Zulkasheva, G.T. Isakhan, G.M. Karataeva A.S., eds. Tragediya Kazakhskogo Aula, 1928-34: Sbornik Dokumentov, Vol. 1, 1928-Aprel’ 1929 (Almaty: Raritet, 2013), 43.
10 Ibid., 190-4.
11 Ibid., 213.
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Stephen G. Wheatcroft
Stephen G. Wheatcroft is Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, where he taught Russian History for 30 years. Since then, he taught for a couple of years in the School of Social Studies and Humanities at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, and periodically in the Institute of Demography in the Higher School for Economics in Moscow and in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. Together with R.W. Davies he wrote The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture 1931-33, and other volumes of The Industrialization of Soviet Russia, which won the Alexander Nove award for distinguished scholarship in 2020.