the Odessa bosses withdrew death registration books from all village councils, from 1933 “without exception” and from 1932 in some regions as well.11 Similar orders exist for Kharkiv province, where officials also demanded all death registries from November 1932 until the end of 1933, on the grounds that they were in the hands of “class-hostile elements” such as kulaks, Petliurites and special deportees.
