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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The famine continued in 1570 when a pestilence hit Russia too. [3] In spite of the efforts to contain outbreaks the epidemic spread in the Central and Northern Russia. [4] Many localities were depopulated and there were reports of cannibalism. [5] The more dense urban population especially suffered and some towns lost nearly all their inhabitants.
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]
Near the monument to Holodomor victims in Kyiv in 2006, a woman lights a candle in remembrance of the up to 10 million people who died in Ukraine during the famine of 1932-33. (Genia Savilov/AFP ...
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 ...