The War Communism Famine: Grain Requisition in Revolutionary Russia

In 1918, Lenin's government launched a brutal policy of forced grain requisitioning known as prodrazverstka, sparking a catastrophic famine that claimed millions of lives. This episode follows the Bolsheviks' desperate attempt to feed the Red Army and cities, the peasant resistance, and the moral crisis within the party. We explore the role of food detachments (prodotryady), the Committees of the Poor (kombedy), and the collapse of the rural economy. Drawing on firsthand accounts from villages like Tambov and the Volga region, Lucas and Luna examine how War Communism's attack on the peasantry set the stage for the Tambov Rebellion and the New Economic Policy. A brutal chapter in the revolution's attempt to remake society from the ground up.

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