What was the intention of the policy of “debayization”? Did it contribute to the outbreak offamine 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. Throughcollectivization 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 formKazakhs 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 Goloshchëkin'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