러시아ㆍ유라시아

The article is devoted to the investigation of one of the most openly political issue in Kazakhstan history - hunger of 1932-1933 - as well as the connected with it demographic crisis of the Kazakh ethnos. In modern Kazakh historiography the dominant interpretation of the events of those days is that of the central power preplanned action against the indigenous republican population. In author’s opinion, the attempts of ethnicization of the issue are groundless and far from the historic truth. The article summarizes that hunger of 1932-1933 and the following demographic crisis were not specific only of Kazakhstan but the result of the wide scaled socialist experiment in agriculture - collectivization that took place in all the regions of the USSR. Alongside with aul, the resettlement Kazkh villages had also suffered certain demographic losses, proved by the diminution in the number of some nonindigenous ethnos. Less tragical socialist agriculture reconstruction results of the resettlement village are due to its greater flexibility and stability and better climatic conditions, as immigrants were settled in best farming regions. Great human losses among the indigenous population were mainly caused by objective factors -peculiarities of the traditional nomadic cattle breeding that turned to be much more vulnerable in the process of socio-cultural changes in the end of the 1920s - the beginning of the 1930s.