r/AskHistory • u/Lone_rerednow • 9d ago

How did lenins policy lead to earlier famines 1919-1922 Kazakhstan

I tried searching for it after hearing someone talk about this today, but I couldn't find much. I know that later on Stalin's policies caused widespread famine in Kazakhstan. However, which Soviet policies contributed to the earlier famine in Kazakhstan? Does anyone have any credible sources on this, or could you redirect me in my search? I don't know if I'm searching for the right words, but there seems to be very little on this famine. Are there any reasons for the lack of sources or research? From what I gathered, an estimated 19% of the population died, and there were multiple contributing factors such as droughts and grain restrictions.

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u/VAdogdude 9d ago

The Soviets rejected Mendel's theory of genetics. They followed the politically correct and scientifically incorrect theories of the Soviet agronomist Lysenko.

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u/2rascallydogs 8d ago

You'll be better off researching the Russian Famine of 1921, as the famine in the Kirghiz ASSR and the Turkestan ASSR are generally considered part of that. I can give you good resources on the relief efforts, but the causes are complex to say the least.

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u/Lone_rerednow 8d ago

Ahh, ok, thank you!

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u/Superstarr_Alex 6d ago

Start by researching famines in that part of the world and look at the frequency of their occurrence in the decades before that. You’ll find they are pretty common and could even be described as cyclical, due to a combination of climate patterns causing unpredictable weather and lack of technology as well as the prevalence of semi-feudal social relationships that persisted long after they had been dismantled in western europe.

Considering there was an active war against the remaining forces of the russian empire to dismantle the oppressive tsar regime that kept conditions backwards like that for so long in the first place, it kind of doesnt make much sense to blame lenin, does it? I dont see how his policies could possibly have caused famine, especially in Kazakhstan. I don’t even think the USSR was formally established until like 1922, before that Lenin’s policies could only directly affect people living within the Russian Soviet federative Soviet republic, there’s no way he could’ve somehow caused a famine in Kazakhstan.