The Causes of Ukrainian Famine Mortality, 1932-33

Previously circulated as “The Political-Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932–33.” We thank Daron Acemoglu, Maxim Ananyev, Volha Charnysh, Michael Ellman, Ruben Enikolopov, Jeff Frieden, Scott Gehlbach, Mikhail Golosov, Sergei Guriev, Mark Harrison, Oleg Khlevniuk, Alexey Makarin, Victor Malein, Joel Mokyr, Cormac O’Grada, Elias Papaioannou, Steven Nafziger, Maria Petrova, Sakari Saaritsa, Torsten Santavirta, Marco Tabellini, Chris Udry and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya for their insights; the participants of the Harvard/MIT Development Workshop, Harvard Political Economy Workshop, NYU Development Workshop, LSE STICERD Applied Workshop, Northwestern Economic History Workshop, USC Development Workshop, Fudan University SOE Applied Workshop, Trinity College Applied Economics Workshop, CERGEEI Applied Economics Workshop, EIEF Workshop, HECER (Helsinki Center of Economic Research) Labor and Public Economics seminar, Helsinki economic and social history seminar, Northwestern Economic History Lunch, Northwestern Development Lunch, George Mason Economic History Lunch, the NBER Political Economy Workshop, the Ridge Conference, the ASSA/AEA On the Role of and Culture and Community 2020 session, 2020 Summer Workshop in the Economic History and Historical Political Economy of Russia, Kiel/CEPR Conference on Geopolitics. For excellent research assistance, we thank Pavel Bacherikov, Nikita Karpov, Ivan Korolev, Sergio Lopez-Araiza Bejar, Kaman Lyu, Carlo Medici, Ludovica Mosillo. All mistakes are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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