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Directive of 22 January 1933 on the mass exit of peasants

A Central Committee and Council of People's Commissars directive of 22 January 1933 to stop peasants leaving Ukraine and the North Caucasus.

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Dates
22 Jan 1933
Also known as
Directive No. 65 of 22 January 1933

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  • Communist Party of the Soviet Union 22 Jan 1933 Primary record 1

    Its Central Committee, with the Council of People's Commissars; the party was then the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

  • Soviet government 22 Jan 1933 Primary record 1

    Issued jointly with the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

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  1. 22 Jan 1933 Directive of 22 January 1933 on the mass exit of peasants
  2. 22 Jan 1933 Communist Party of the Soviet Union authored Directive of 22 January 1933 on the mass exit of peasants
  3. 22 Jan 1933 Soviet government authored Directive of 22 January 1933 on the mass exit of peasants
Proof 3 sources
  1. Soviet Union: Legal Acts Regarding the 1932-33 Starvation in Ukraine, Law Library of Congress, Global Legal Research Directorate, Oct 2008. Primary record
    Directive of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of People’s Commissars of January 22, 1933, on Preventing the Mass Exit of Peasants from the Regions of North Caucasus and Ukraine.
    The directive restricted railroad transportation in the areas affected by starvation, prohibited the sale of train tickets to the local people
    It also ordered the creation of police and military units assigned with the duty of catching those who attempted to leave the areas of starvation.
  2. Demography of a Man-Made Human Catastrophe: The Case of Massive Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933, Canadian Studies in Population, 2015. Scholarship & press
    Directive No. 65 of the Central Committee dated 22 January 1933, “On the prevention of a mass exodus of starving peasants,” closed the borders to any voluntary emigration
  3. Regional 1932-1933 Famine Losses: A Comparative Analysis of Ukraine and Russia, Nationalities Papers, May 2020. Scholarship & press
    January 22, 1933: directive of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR that prohibited farmers from leaving the territory of Soviet Ukraine and Kuban in search of bread to other areas of the Soviet Union and forced their return to their place of residence
    February 16, 1933: extension of the directive as of January 22, 1933 to the Lower Volga kraj, prohibiting peasants’ travel outside their region
    but the scale of detention of peasants and returning them back was much smaller than in UkrSSR.
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