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    Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union

    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 for every century there were 8 crop failures, which were repeated every 13 years, sometimes causing prolonged famine in a significant territory. The causes of the famine were different, from natural and economic and political crises; for example, the Great Famine of 1931–1933, colloquially called the Holodomor, the cause of which was, among other factors, the collectivization policy in the USSR, which affected the territory of the Volga region in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Wikipedia

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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 for every century there were 8 crop failures, which ...
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  4. historyhit.com

    Between 1932 and 1933, widespread famine devastated the Soviet Union's grain-producing regions, including Ukraine, Northern Caucasus, Volga Region, Southern Urals, Western Siberia and Kazakhstan.. Within 2 years, an estimated 5.7-8.7 million people died. The main cause of the great famine continues to be hotly debated, with theories ranging from poor weather conditions to the ...
  5. historyhit.com

    In its nearly 70 years of existence, the Soviet Union witnessed tragic famines, regular food supply crises and countless commodity shortages. In the first half of the 20th century, Joseph Stalin implemented drastic economic reforms that saw farms collectivised, peasants criminalised and deported en masse and grain requisitioned in unsustainable quantities.
  6. encyclopedia.com

    This article discusses the three major famines that the Soviet Union experienced. It does not treat regionally-delimited food shortages and famines, which were numerous between 1917 and 1940, or the famine conditions that occurred during World War II, for example in the Leningrad blockade.Famines, of course, were also fairly frequent occurrences in the Tsarist Russian empire, especially in ...
  7. historytools.org

    May 25, 2024The Soviet Union on the Brink. To understand the context of the famine, we must first examine the state of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s. The nation was still reeling from the upheaval of the Russian Revolution and civil war, which had left the economy in shambles. Agriculture, in particular, was struggling to recover.
  8. alchetron.com

    Oct 8, 2024The drought of 1963 caused panic slaughtering of livestock, but there was no risk of famine. Since that year the Soviet Union started importing feed grains for its livestock in increasing amounts. Post-Soviet Russia. Since the collapse of the USSR there have been occasional issues with hunger and food security in Russia. In 1992 there was a ...
  9. historytools.org

    May 26, 2024Throughout its nearly 70-year existence, the Soviet Union was plagued by periodic famines and chronic food shortages that left store shelves bare and citizens waiting in long breadlines. Although the worst famines occurred in the 1920s through 1940s, food supply remained a persistent problem up until the USSR's collapse in 1991, with the ...

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