Holodomor

Meaning

Proper Noun

• 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.
• А famine with mass deaths, especially one of the Soviet famines in 1921–22, 1932–33, or 1946–47.

Related

Similar words

• artificial famine
• famine-genocide
• Great Famine
• terror famine
• terror-genocide

Origin

• Late 1980s, from Ukrainian Голодомо́р, from го́лод + мор. Compare мори́ти. Not related to Holocaust.