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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 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.
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.
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. [47] The same famine killed about half of the Estonian population. Russia: 2,000,000: 1607–1608: Famine [40] Italy: 1618–1648: Famines in Europe caused by Thirty ...
Russian famine of 1921: The writer Maxim Gorky brought world attention to the looming famine. August Nestor Makhno 's headquarters staff and several subordinate commanders were arrested and executed on the spot by a Red Army firing squad: the Makhnovist treaty delegation, still in Kharkiv , was also arrested and liquidated.
The war in Ukraine is not the first to contribute to famine. One of modern history's most noted examples also involved Russia and Ukraine
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 ...
Russia has always maintained that the famine was a natural disaster. That argument was most famously endorsed by the New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty, an unabashed apologist for Stalin ...