ABSTRACT
This chapter represents a pioneering initiative to estimate famine mortality in Ukraine relative to the other Soviet republics over the period 1932 to 1934. The analysis undertaken in this chapter, based on reconstructed population data, reveals the variation in famine mortality across all former Soviet republics, from extremely high levels in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, to very low levels in the Transcaucasus republics. Analyses of direct population losses by region (oblast) within Ukraine show large regional variations, from very high relative values in the Kyiv and Kharkiv oblasts to very low values in the Donetsk oblast.
