The revolution of 1917 and its negative consequences (famine in Volga region and Tatar republic in 1921)

Abstract

The main result of the revolutions of 1917 was the destruction of the Russian state “machine”. The country was in chaos, as people who came to power, were incompetent in managing such a complex mechanism as the state. The destruction of the old world, a mighty power, condemned its people to disasters. The four-year imperialist war and revolutionary movements, a three-year civil war led Russia to political instability, economic decline, lack of workforce in rural areas, death of millions of able-bodied young men, reduction in the population of the country, and the depletion of its gene pool. The poor harvest of 1920, the severe weather conditions of 1921, the appearance of locusts and other crop killers, were the first prerequisites for an unprecedented famine. All this, and above all, the incompetence of the country's leadership, the incompetent food policy of the bolsheviks, their inability to solve the emerging problems, played a major pernicious role in the occurred disaster.

Keywords

• october revolution of 1917
• civil war
• famine of 1921
• tatar republic
• policy of bolsheviks