Socio-Demographic Consequences of the Famine of the early 1920s in Kazakhstan
Kozybayeva M.M. Kudaibergenova A.I. Sarsembina K.K.
December 2023Cherkas Global University Press
Bylye Gody
2023#18Issue 42145 - 2151 pp.
In the article, the authors attempted a comprehensive study of the socio-demographic consequences of the famine of the early 1920s in Kazakhstan, establishing the number of famine victims in the republic, highlighting the problems of high mortality, the spread of epidemic diseases and forced migrations and refugees, child homelessness and others. In the article, the authors note that the civil war, shortage of bread and herbs in 1920, and the death of livestock from jute in 1920 and 1921 brought the republic’s agriculture into complete decline. The emergence of famine found the republic in an environment of complete economic exhaustion. The authors note that famine in Kazakhstan affected five provinces and one district, with more than 2.6 million people starving. The authors made an attempt to establish the demographic losses of the population during the famine, as well as other socio-demographic consequences of the famine in Kazakhstan, such as high mortality, epidemiological diseases, forced migrations of the population. At the same time, there was no reliable data on the number of starving people, and one of the problems in counting the number of starving people was the different sources of statistical information. The situation was complicated by the lack of medicine, food, fuel and money, which greatly complicated the fight against developing epidemic and other diseases, both due to hunger and general infection from the density of the hungry and the population itself due to the cold and lack of fuel in the cities. Copyright
child homelessness , civil war , epidemics , famine , famine relief commissions , forced migration , mortality , surplus appropriation
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