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The famine area in the fall of 1921. The Russian famine of 1921–1922, also known as the Povolzhye famine (Russian: Голод в Поволжье, 'Volga region famine') was a severe famine in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that began early in the spring of 1921 and lasted until 1922.
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 ...
Infinite Sorrow (Russian: Скорбь бесконечная, romanized: Skorb beskonechnaya) is a 1922 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Panteleyev about the Russian famine of 1921. Cast [ edit ]
Evidence of widespread cannibalism was documented during the famine within Ukraine [124] [125] and Kazakhstan. Some of the starving in Kazakhstan devolved into cannibalism ranging from eating leftover corpses to the famished actively murdering each other in order to feed. [126] [127] More than 2,500 people were convicted of cannibalism during ...
Map of Tomsk Oblast with Nazino labelled. The Nazino tragedy (Russian: Назинская трагедия, romanized: Nazinskaya tragediya) was the mass murder and mass deportation of around 6,700 prisoners to Nazino Island, [1] located on the Ob River in West Siberian Krai, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Tomsk Oblast, Russia), in May 1933.
A severe famine in 698–700 was the first famine in Ireland for which the historian Cormac Ó Gráda found references to cannibalism. Cannibalism is also documented for a famine in 1116 and for several ones in the 16th and 17th centuries, including reports of little children being killed so they could be eaten. [18]
WASHINGTON — In 2015, Ukrainian and American officials in Washington, D.C., unveiled a memorial to the Holodomor, the intentional starvation of some 4 million Ukrainians by the Soviet dictator ...
One of the worst famines in all of Russian history, with as many as 100,000 in Moscow and up to one-third of the country's population killed; see Russian famine of 1601–1603. [46] The same famine killed about half of the Estonian population. Russia: 2,000,000: 1607–1608: Famine [39] Italy: 1618–1648: Famines in Europe caused by Thirty ...