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The 1921 Famine - Coggle Diagram
The 1921 Famine
Evidence
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Grain requisitioning between 1919 and 1920 exceeded the harvest amount by 30% - peasant household had to give up 118 kilograms of food, fodder and seed
Caused by requisitioning, drought and the war
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Of the 10 million deaths of the Civil War period, 1/2 starved to death
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To survive they ate; seeds, acorns, grass, weeds, tree barks, corpses of dead animals and people
The food they were eating led to epidemics of diseases such as; typhyus, typhoid fever, small box, influenza, dysentery, cholera etc.
Knowledge
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Britain supported the famine victims - establishing an appeal 'Save the Children Fund in Russia' - helped to save 14 million peasants from starvation
Kulaks were blamed by the Communist Party for the high prices from the food shortages - believed they were hoarding/hiding grain
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Droughts - led to crop failures, drops in yield and food shortages
Quotes
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'The failure of the new regime to end hunger was a factor in the forming of the initial military opposition to the Bolsheviks in 1918.' (Lynch)
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