At the beginning of World War I, Russian officials gravely misjudged their ability to provide food during wartime and things started to decline within a year.On March 25th, the Provisional Government, after inheriting the food shortage issues, established a grain monopoly meaning that all grain was state property to be rationed as it saw fit… Continue reading “Let Them All Eat Cake” →
Tag: Food Supply
The Peasants got Hangry
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•Line at a Tobacco Store (1918). Corner of Prospect and Caravan Street, Petrograd, 1918. Source: Russian State Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorks, 2000. This week I decided to focus on the food provisions that arose in Russia during … Continue reading →