Russian Revolution · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Russian famine (1891–92)
On the Russian Revolution map as “The famine of 1891–92”
1891–92 — Drought and a failed harvest across seventeen provinces bring famine, then typhus and cholera, and an estimated 375,000 to 500,000 people die. In Lukoyanov district the writer Korolenko records officials who deny the hunger. It is marked here as a memorial, and as the moment educated society stopped waiting for the state.
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- Site of memory
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- Counter-reforms of Alexander III (chapter 2 of Russian Revolution)
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- The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924
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