The Following Is an Excerpt from Fedor Belov's Account of Life

question 74

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The following is an excerpt from Fedor Belov's account of life on a collective farm in the Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s (Evaluating the Evidence 27.2) : "There was no one to gather the bumper crop of 1933, since the people who remained alive were too weak and exhausted. More than a hundred persons-office and factory workers from Leningrad-were sent to assist on the kolkhoz; two representatives of the Party arrived to help organize the harvesting. . . . That summer (1933) the entire administration of the kolkhoz-the bookkeeper, the warehouseman, the manager of the flour mill, and even the chairman himself-were put on trial on charges of plundering the kolkhoz property and produce. All the accused were sentenced to terms of seven to ten years, and a new administration was elected. . . . After 1934 a gradual improvement began in the economic life of the kolkhoz and its members. . . . In general, from the mid-1930s until 1941, the majority of kolkhoz members in the Ukraine lived relatively well."
Which of the following best characterizes the events of 1933 to 1941?

• A)After a series of natural disasters, things returned to normal in the Ukraine.
• B)After the entire population of the Ukraine was wiped out by the Soviet-induced famine, Russian peasants came in to take their place.
• C)After the Soviet-induced famine, the entire leadership of the kolkhoz was purged and conditions were allowed to gradually improve.
• D)After the Soviet-induced famine, conditions were allowed to slowly deteriorate until rural life in the Ukraine was no longer possible.

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