General overview of humanitarian aid of the German Red Cross to the starving population of Soviet Russia and Ukraine in 1921–1923
Journal: Historical Ethnology
Year: 2022

The article is based on documents from Russian national and regional archives, as well as modern scientific publications. It highlights and summarizes the main aspects the German Red Cross activities on the territory of Soviet Russia and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialistic Republic during the famine of 1921–1923. The German Red Cross was one of the member organisations of the Nansen International Committee for Aid to Famine in Russia and Ukraine and acted on its behalf independently, sending its ow