1921-1922 Famine in Tatarstan
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The 1921-1922 famine in Tatarstan was a result of war communism policy, realized in Tatar ASSR as well as elsewhere in the USSR. It started in autumn 1921. More than 2,000,000 peasant starved that time, particularly in Arsk, Sviyazhsk, Mamadysh, Menzelinsk, Spassk, Tetyushi, Chelny kantons.
In the end of 1921 the special committee Tatpomgol was established to find out the solution of the problem. Right up to August 1922 Tatpomgol imported 8,000,000 pood food, including 2,000,000 seed with a loan. 210,000, mostly children, were evacuated to the Central Asia, Belarus, Siberia.
The emergency feeding points were established all over republic. The Soviet power invited an international organizations, such as International Workers Relief and American Relief Administration to improve the situation. On July 1, 1922 more than 1,600,000 feed in those emergency points. The number of the victims is estimated as 400,000-600,000. 86,000 farms disappeared (16.2% of total). After the famine the leadership of the republic was dismissed.
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- (Tatar) "Açlıq 1921-1922, Tatarstanda/Ачлык 1921-22, Татарстанда". Tatar Encyclopedia. (2002). Kazan: Tatarstan Republic Academy of Sciences Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia.
