Russian Revolution · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Volga famine (1921–22)
On the Russian Revolution map as “The Volga famine”
1921–22 — Drought, requisition and ruin starve the Volga; perhaps five million die. American Relief Administration food keeps millions alive — an uncomfortable rescue the regime accepts and later hides. A memorial and a moral ledger.
- When
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- Site of memory
- Chapter
- From War Communism to the NEP (chapter 13 of Russian Revolution)
- Atlas
- The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924
- Also in
- Stalin’s Soviet Union
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