1921–1923 famine in Ukraine

[1] During the summer of 1921, the southern regions of the European part of Soviet Russia were suffering from severe drought and starvation, which began in the Volga Valley, the North Caucasus, and Ukraine.

[1] Soviet leaders acknowledged the famine in southern Ukraine only in December 1921, and it was still a sensation when they met delegates in Kharkiv in February 1922.

[2] International relief organizations acting in the Volga region began in August 1921, but the Soviet government in Ukraine started seeking their help only in January 1922, when many people were already starving.

The American Relief Administration opened its office in Kyiv, after Lincoln Hutchinson's trip by car in late December 1921 to January 1922 to Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhzhia.

[7] Critics of the theory point out that no decrees or other strategic documents directly prescribing the elimination of the Ukrainian peasantry were found.