page_title: 1921–22 famine in Tatarstan
hierarchical_section_title: 1921–22 famine in Tatarstan
caption_attribution_description: Famine in Russia 1921 The Corner Of The Cemetary In Wasted Country. Buzuluk, winter 1921/22 year. The image has also a known Holodomor hoax photo. Original Postcard Published In Brussels To Raise Funds For The Famine Relief Efforts by a Famine Relief Committee. Mr. Nansen was from Norway and was appointed the High Commissioner for the Soviet Famine Relief effort.
context_page_description: The 1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan was a period of mass starvation and drought that took place in the Tatar ASSR as a result of war communism policy, in which 500,000 to 2,000,000 peasants died. The event was part of the greater Russian famine of 1921–22 that affected other parts of the USSR, in which up 5,000,000 people died in total. According to Roman Serbyn, a professor of Russian and East European history, the Tatarstan famine was the first man-made famine in the Soviet Union and systematically targeted ethnic minorities such as Volga Tatars and Volga Germans.
context_section_description: The 1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan was a period of mass starvation and drought that took place in the Tatar ASSR as a result of war communism policy, in which 500,000 to 2,000,000 peasants died. The event was part of the greater Russian famine of 1921–22 that affected other parts of the USSR, in which up 5,000,000 people died in total. According to Roman Serbyn, a professor of Russian and East European history, the Tatarstan famine was the first man-made famine in the Soviet Union and systematically targeted ethnic minorities such as Volga Tatars and Volga Germans.
caption: Victims of the famine in Buzuluk, 1921
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