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Famines

American Relief Administration (ARA) Transport column on the frozen Volga River at Tsaritsyn (Volgograd) in the early 1920s

The Volga Germans experienced periodic famines with both natural and man-made causes.

  • Famine 1891-1892
  • Famine 1921-1922
  • Famine 1932-1933

    • Other Famine Information

  • The Volga Relief Society
  • Famine letters published in Die Welt-Post
  • Famine articles
  • Read and excerpt from "In the Land of Tolstoi: Experiences of Famine and Misrule in Russia"
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    Last updated 23 August 2009.