The Russian famine of 1921–1922, also known as the Povolzhye famine (Russian: Голод в Поволжье, 'Volga region famine') was a severe famine in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that began early in the spring of 1921 and lasted until 1922.

The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine and different parts of Russia, including Kazakhstan, [6] [7] [8] Northern Caucasus, Kuban Region, Volga Region, the South Urals, and West Siberia.

The deadly Russian famine of 1921–1922 happened as a result of the ongoing civil war and garnered wide international attention, the most affected area being the Southeastern areas of European Russia (including Volga region, especially national republics of Idel-Ural, see 1921–22 famine in Tatarstan) and in Ukraine .

2024年3月19日 · The Russian famine of 1921-22 was one of the worst disasters of the 20th century. Triggered by natural causes but magnified by human policies and actions, the famine left millions of Russians without adequate food.

More than seven million people died as a result of the 1932-33 famine. In modern Ukraine, this awful period is often known as 'holodomor'.

2022年1月20日 · The Soviet famine of 1932-1933 has been described as a genocide of Ukrainians. Indeed, the period is referred to as ‘Holodomor’, combining the Ukrainian words for hunger ‘holod’ and extermination ‘mor’.

"The Russian Famine of 1921-1922 is the worst, both as regards the numbers affected and as regards mortality from starvation and disease, which has occurred in Europe in modern times" - League of Nations report on economic conditions in Russia Link opens in a new window.

Joseph Stalin’s genocidal Ukrainian famine, during which as many as 5 million peasants died of starvation in the 1930s, further buried the memory of the earlier catastrophe. It’s unfortunate.

famine was a man-made famine in the sense of Amartya Sen's famous thesis that no famine takes place under democracy: politics is to blame for modern famines, including the Soviet famine of 1932-1933 (Sen 1999).

The great famine of the early 1920s in Russia1 is considered the first Soviet famine, followed laterby 2“the terror-famine of 1932- 1933” and the post - World War II famine of 1946- 1947.