Hungry Moscow
Subtitle: scarcity and urban society in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1921
By: Mauricio Borrero.
Series: Studies in modern European history ;; v. 41
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Food supply -- Soviet Union.; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Food supply.; Moscow (Russia) -- History -- 1917-1921.
Description: "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 policies by the Bolshevik government."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Scarcity, revolution, civil war; title: Administering shortages; title: Moscow's food crisis; title: To the village for food; title: Rations and privilege; title: Old and new worlds of dining; title: Black market Moscow.