The causes of the Holodomor, the famine that ravaged Soviet Ukraine during 1932 and 1933, resulting in the death of around 3–5 million people, are the subject of scholarly and political debate, such as the Holodomor genocide question. Some historians believe the famine was the unintended consequence of problems arising from Soviet agricultural collectivization implemented to support the program of rapid industrialization in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Other historians believe policies were intentionally designed to cause the famine. Some of them suggest that the famine may fall under the definition of genocide that entered international law with the 1948 Genocide Convention.