A dihan rally during the confiscation of property from the bais. Kazakh ASSR / RIA
Photograph presumably taken by the Russian Red Cross Society / From the private collection of Sabit Shildebay
Turar Ryskulov / Wikimedia Commons
A medical team examines residents of one of the villages of the Akmola region. The Kazakh ASSR. 1928 / RIA
Illustration album «La Famine en Russie». Geneva, 1922 / From the private collection of Sabit Shildebay
Soviet poster «Remember the starving». 1921 / Wikimedia Commons
Emaciated horse. USSR, 1932 or 1933 / Alamy
Illustration album «La Famine en Russie». Geneva, 1922 / From the private collection of Sabit Shildebay
Mikhail Mikhailovich Cheremnykh. Awaken, citizens! Hunger is no longer suffering — it is terror! 1922 / Heritage Art / Heritage Images via Getty Images
Sergei Chekhonin. Help the Starving! The Union of Art Workers Aids the Starving. Soviet propaganda poster, 1921 / Alamy
From 1930 onwards, fearing social unrest due to forced collectivization, the 1932–1933 famine, and massive peasant migration into cities, Soviet authorities launched a series of purges. Between 1930 and 1939, hundreds of thousands of people perished / Alamy
Seitkali Mendeshev /Wikimedia Commons
Manash Kozybayev / Kazgazeta.kz