The Soviet Famine of 1946–1947, the Weather and Human Agency in Historical Perspective

Stephen Wheatcroft

Europe-Asia Studies, 2012, vol. 64, issue 6, 987-1005

Abstract: This article considers the famine of the immediate post-war period of 1946–1947 in relation to the food problems experienced by the USSR in World War II and to the impact of the weather conditions from 1941. It is argued that the timing and nature of the extreme food problems experienced in this famine conform to a general pattern of Soviet famines in which urban food supply problems over a number of years give rise to increasing pressure on the peasantry and a general reduction of stocks, which when complicated by drought and harvest failure produces a rural famine.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2012.691725

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