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Despite this, historian Stephen G. Wheatcroft says that "there were two bad harvests in 1931 and 1932, largely but not wholly a result of natural conditions", [32] within the Soviet Union. The most important natural factor in the Kazakh famine of 1930–1933 was the Zhut from 1927 to 1928, [ 33 ] which was a period of extreme cold in which ...
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there have been more frequent issues with hunger and food insecurity in Russia. [51] Both Russia and Ukraine were subject to a series of severe droughts from July 2010 to 2015. [52] The 2010 drought saw wheat production fall by 20% in Russia and subsequently resulted in a temporary ban on grain exports. [53]
According to historian Stephen Wheatcroft, "there were two bad harvests in 1931 and 1932, largely but not wholly a result of natural conditions", [12] within the Soviet Union; Wheatcroft estimates that the grain yield for the Soviet Union preceding the famine was a low harvest of between 55 and 60 million tons, [13]: xix–xxi likely in part ...
The drought in Europe is on track to be the worst one in 500 years, experts say. Centuries-old warnings emerge from riverbed as Europe faces historic drought Skip to main content
Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936. The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
1990 UK Drought and Heatwave; 1995 UK Drought and Heatwave (The drought generally lasted until Summer 1997) 2003 UK Drought and Heatwave; 2006 UK Drought and Heatwave; 2011 UK Drought and March–April Heatwave (The drought continued from 2010 and lasted through until March 2012) Part of the 2010-2012 UK Drought. 2011 UK September–October ...
This is a list of sovereign states in the 1930s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1930 and 31 December 1939. It contains entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty .
From left, clockwise: Dorothea Lange's photo of the homeless Florence Thompson shows the effects of the Great Depression; due to extreme drought conditions, farms across the south-central United States become dry and the Dust Bowl spreads; The Empire of Japan invades China, which eventually leads to the Second Sino-Japanese War.