Hungry Moscow : scarcity and urban society in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1921
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Hungry Moscow : scarcity and urban society in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1921
（Studies in modern European history, v. 41）
Peter Lang, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-222) and index
Contents of Works
- Scarcity, revolution, civil war
- Administering shortages
- Moscow's food crisis
- To the village for food
- Rations and privilege
- Old and new worlds of dining
- Black market Moscow
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New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien. Severe food shortages and unremitting hunger served as the background to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the civil war that followed. Hungry Moscow examines the impact of these food shortages on Moscow residents, focusing on the survival strategies they devised to overcome or minimize hunger. Also examined is the interplay between these short-term individual survival strategies and the formulation and development of long-term government book contributes to our understanding of important issues in early Soviet history, such as the relationship between central and local institutions, rationing, the growth of black markets, Bolshevik social policies, and the reordering of urban life during revolutionary times.
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