NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Famine sceptics

The Famine Sceptics are historians who argue that the famines alleged to have occurred in the USSR in the 1930s were, by and large, a hoax; that Stalin's policy of collectivization of agriculture was not responsible for millions of deaths; and that the actual number of people who died of starvation was much lower and due to other causes.

The issue is discussed in detail at Collectivisation in the USSR.

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