What was the intention of the policy of debayization Did it contribute to the outbreak of famine among the Qazaqs The Kazakh famine of the 1930s was a consequence of an effort by Josef Stalin then secretary general of the Communist Party Soviet Union to collectivize the Soviet countryside which is later called the collectivization policy This policy is one of the forms of social political cultural and economic transformation Through it Moscow hoped both to modernize agriculture making Soviet agriculture more productive and efficient and to break apart existing social structures If you were a peasant what this generally meant was that you were stripped of your land and your livestock and shunted into a collective farm where a set portion of the production of that farm was given over to the state In the Kazakh case what is different about collectivization is that rather than being an assault on peasants it was an assault on nomads depeasantization vs denomadization if you will Through collectivization and a whole host of other changes that accompanied Stalin s first Five Year Plan Moscow sought to eliminate pre existing markers of Kazakh identities such as nomadism and form Kazakhs into a Soviet nation Debaysation was also part of eliminating pre existing markers of Kazakh society Its aim was to destroy the old solidarity that existed between the commoners and the bays richer elements in order to create class division During Goloshch kin s Little October bays were deported to other places where they did not have an influence However its contribution to the outbreak of famine is negligible Both famine and debaysation are the product of the same idea but implemented in different ways