While a complex task, it is possible to group some of the causes that contributed to the Holodomor. They have to be understood in the larger context of Stalin's "social revolution from above" that took place in the Soviet Union at the time.С. Кульчицький, Проблема колективізації сільського господарства в сталінській "революції зверху", 2004. (S. Kulchytskyi, The problem of agricultural collectivization in Stalin's "revolution from above", 2004) Archived from the original (in Ukrainian); Google automated English translation PDF, 15 August 2019 Проблеми Історіїї України факти, судження, пошуки, №12, 2004, сс. 21–69. (Problems of the History of Ukraine: Facts, Judgments, Quests, #12, 2004, p. 21–69.)
