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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.
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 ...
1891–1892: Russian famine of 1891–1892. Beginning along the Volga River and spreading to the Urals and the Black Sea. Russia: 375,000 – 500,000 [103] [104] 1895–1898: Famine during the Cuban War of Independence: Cuba: 200,000 – 300,000: 1896–1902: Indian famine of 1896–1897 and Indian famine of 1899–1900 due to drought and ...
Russian famine of 1891–92; Births. January 1 – Boris Morros, an American Communist Party member, Soviet agent, and FBI double agent (d. 1963)
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891–1924 is a best-selling book by the British historian Orlando Figes on the Russian Revolution and the preceding quarter of a century. Written between 1989 and 1996, it was published in 1996 and re-issued with a new introduction for the revolution's centenary in 2017. [1]
1891; 1890; 1889; 1892 in Russia: →. 1893 ... Franco-Russian Alliance; Russian famine of 1891–92; ... a Soviet official, Commissar of State Security 1st Class of ...
At the height of the famine, 28,000 people were dying daily, even as food and grain continued to flow to Russia. “Parents take whatever they find to their children, but they die themselves,” a ...
Russian famine of 1891–1892 This page was last edited on 6 March 2023, at 22:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...