Holodomors

Proper noun

Holodomor (plural Holodomors)

1. (historical) The 1932–33 famine affecting rural Ukraine and other territories of the Soviet Union, a result of the forced collectivization of land-owning peasants by the Soviet government.
   • In 1928 the village was divided into kulaks, middle-peasants, and poor peasants: "this was the beginning of the planned murder-famine (holodomor)."1990, Oral History of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine, volume 2, Washington, DC: Commission on the Ukraine Famine, page 1034
2. (historical, rare) А famine with mass deaths, especially one of the Soviet famines in 1921–22, 1932–33, or 1946–47.
   • Some of the publications of the Association’s regional branches are also steeped in xenophobia and anti-Semitism (for example, the proceedings of the 2003 Kharkiv conference “The Holodomors in Ukraine: Reasons, Victims, Perpetrators”).2008, Liudmyla Grynevych [Hrynevych], “The Present State of Ukrainian Historiography on the Holodomor and Prospects for its Development,” Harriman Review, v 16, n 2 (November, “Holodomor 1932–33...