By N. Ganson
ISBN-10: 0230613330
ISBN-13: 9780230613331
This booklet illuminates a little-known yet greatly major twentieth-century situation within the Soviet Union. Drawing on archival fabrics declassified because the fall of communism, Nicholas Ganson situates the famine of 1946-47 on the crossroads of Soviet social and political heritage, international conflict II, the chilly struggle, ideology, and famine within the sleek global. He sheds mild at the views of Soviet elites and provides voice to the famine’s sufferers. In revealing the multi-causality of the postwar starvation, this bold paintings demanding situations the acquired knowledge in regards to the dating among politics and famine.
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The example of the Stalingrad tractor plant demonstrates more vividly that bread shortages, as reflected in the meager diet of workers, helped limit agricultural production, creating a vicious circle. 48 Food shortages at the tractor plant led to an increase in the number of cases of dystrophy. 49 This example in particular reveals the cyclical nature of the problem; for, as we shall see, the lack of mechanization, specifically tractors, contributed greatly to poor agricultural production, and the shortage of bread in turn limited labor output, thus slowing the production of mechanization for the countryside.
And when she raised her face, it was one of the most beautiful faces we have ever seen. . She squatted on her arms and ate watermelon rinds and sucked the bones of other people’s soup . . John Steinbeck, Stalingrad, 19472 F amine strikes the most vulnerable elements of society: children and the elderly. 3 But the fate of children during the postwar hunger is yet to be told. F. Zima devotes only a handful of pages to how children endured during the famine, leaving many questions unanswered. 4 Archival documents of the Soviet Ministry of Health (Ministerstvo Zdravookhraneniia) and Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent (Sovetskoe Obshchestvo Krasnogo Kresta i Krasnogo Polumesiatsa) attest that, on the contrary, government officials at various levels sought to improve the plight of 28 ● The Soviet Famine of 1946–47 in Global and Historical Perspective homeless, orphaned, and dystrophic children in 1946–47.
She squatted on her arms and ate watermelon rinds and sucked the bones of other people’s soup . . John Steinbeck, Stalingrad, 19472 F amine strikes the most vulnerable elements of society: children and the elderly. 3 But the fate of children during the postwar hunger is yet to be told. F. Zima devotes only a handful of pages to how children endured during the famine, leaving many questions unanswered. 4 Archival documents of the Soviet Ministry of Health (Ministerstvo Zdravookhraneniia) and Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent (Sovetskoe Obshchestvo Krasnogo Kresta i Krasnogo Polumesiatsa) attest that, on the contrary, government officials at various levels sought to improve the plight of 28 ● The Soviet Famine of 1946–47 in Global and Historical Perspective homeless, orphaned, and dystrophic children in 1946–47.
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