The Volga famine
1921–1922 · Event
War, requisitioning and drought converge in a famine that kills around five million people along the Volga — so vast that Lenin swallows ideology and admits Herbert Hoover's American Relief Administration, which at its peak feeds ten million Soviet citizens a day.
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