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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.
Famine [31] France: 1305: Famine [31] France: 1310: Famine [31] France: 1314–1315 Famine. Dikes collapsed, fields vanished, crops rotted, and livestock died in huge numbers due to the disease "Rinderpest". The price of wheat jumped "8 fold". [6] England: 1315–1317 or 1322: Great Famine of 1315–1317: Europe [32] 7,500,000: 1319–1320 ...
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 ...
The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine and different parts of Russia, including Kazakhstan, [6] [7] [8] Northern Caucasus, Kuban Region, Volga Region, the South Urals, and West Siberia.
The 1891–1892 famine in the Russian Empire, sometimes 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.
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 ...
1921 Russian Supreme Soviet election 1921–22 famine in Tatarstan 5×5=25 Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement Central Committee of the 10th Congress Far Eastern Front in the Russian Civil War Kronstadt rebellion New Economic Policy; Peace of Riga Peasant rebellion of Sorokino Russian famine of 1921–22
Russian famine of 1891–1892; Russian famine of 1921–1922; S. 1922 seizure of church valuables in Russia; Soviet famine of 1930–1933; Soviet famine of 1946 ...