1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan

When

1921 – 1922

Kind

Famine

Coordinates

55.78° N, 49.17° E

Description

Mass starvation in the Tatar ASSR

Cause

war communism, Prodrazvyorstka

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Mass starvation in the Tatar ASSR

The 1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan was a period of mass starvation and drought that took place in the Tatar ASSR as a result of the Russian Civil War, in which 500,000 to 2,000,000 peasants died. The event was part of the greater Russian famine of 1921–22 that affected other parts of what became the Soviet Union, in which up to 5,000,000 people died in total.

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