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  2. Russian famine of 1921–1922 - Wikipedia

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    The famine came at the end of six-and-a-half years of unrest and violence (World War I, the two Russian Revolutions of 1917, and the Russian Civil War). Many political and military factions were involved in the events, and most of them have been accused by their enemies of having contributed to or even bearing sole responsibility for the famine.

  3. Russian famine of 1891–1892 - Wikipedia

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    The Russian famine of 1891–1892, also called the Tsar Famine, Tsar's Famine or Black Earth Famine, began along the Volga River and spread as far as the Urals and Black Sea. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During the famine, an epidemic also raged, in total 375,000-400,000 died from hunger and disease, mainly from diseases.

  4. Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    An American charity postcard showing the scale of the deadly Russian famine of 1921–1922. Throughout Russian history famines, droughts and crop failures occurred on the territory of Russia, the Russian Empire and the USSR on more or less regular basis. From the beginning of the 11th to the end of the 16th century, on the territory of Russia ...

  5. Russian famine - Wikipedia

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    Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Russian famine .

  6. 1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan - Wikipedia

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    The event was part of the greater Russian famine of 1921–22 that affected other parts of what became the Soviet Union, [6] in which up 5,000,000 people died in total. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] According to Roman Serbyn , a professor of Russian and East European history, the Tatarstan famine was the first man-made famine in the Soviet Union and ...

  7. Russian famine of 1601–1603 - Wikipedia

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    The Russian famine of 1601–1603, Russia's worst famine in terms of proportional effect on the population, killed perhaps two million people: about 30% of the Russian people. The famine compounded the Time of Troubles (1598–1613), when the Tsardom of Russia was unsettled politically and later invaded (1605–1618) by the Polish–Lithuanian ...

  8. Russian Famine Relief Act - Wikipedia

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    The ARA's famine relief operations ran in parallel with much smaller Mennonite, Jewish and Quaker famine relief operations in Russia. [4] [5] 1921 ARA poster saying "The Gift of the American People" in Russian. The ARA's operations in Russia were shut down on June 15, 1923, after it was discovered that Russia under Lenin had renewed the export ...

  9. Category:Famines in Russia - Wikipedia

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    English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... 1922 seizure of church valuables in Russia; Soviet famine of 1930–1933;