Anne Applebaum's "Red Famine" book on the 1932-33 Ukrainian famine (3 of 12)

What was the famine/Holodomor of 1932-33 in Ukraine? (Part 3)

The resistance to collectivization and especially to the extreme government requisitions was widespread but scarcely systematic, at least not on a large scale. The Soviet government blamed resistance on kulaks and interpreted it in terms of class struggle. That was real. But there was also plenty of resistance from peasant farmers who didn’t meet the most expansive definition of a kulak.

And peasant revolts are notoriously messy.

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