Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Soviet famine of 1932 1933 affected major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union which included Ukraine, Northern Caucasus, Volga Region and Kazakhstan, South Urals, West Siberia. The manifestation of this famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic is referred to as Holodomor. Unlike a famine in the Russian SFSR in 1921, information about the famine of 1932 34 was suppressed by the Soviet authorities until perestroika, the political and economic reforms which ended the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.