Show RUSSIANS HIT BY FAMINES shortages of food date from 1600 reduced to star in famine of 1911 next to the proletariat of india anil china the russian peasant feels the pinch of poverty and hunger more keenly and more frequently linn any other sas the at lonal geographic one 0 the eirl lest russian famine i on record was that of with a death toll of peasants cats dogs and rats vere eaten and even the strong the weak human was arld in the markers three russian famines of recent dite were among the most were in history tn 1900 and 1911 dur ing the ten ears following the first of thee lie government allotted near 12 for relief ant the sums were not chias judiciously ex bonded in 1900 the government gave 40 pounds of flour a month to all per eighteen years old and att nine those bettt cen these ages received no allowance and the older and vo unger shared pl tance with alie others the famine of 1911 extended over one third the area of europe and at persons valle verc reduced to starvation eeds the bark of trees and bitter bread mode of acorns constituted lie chief diet denials maat little faults great |