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As a Russian, and as a Russian interested in economical history of both the Russian Empire and the USSR, I have to notice that before the communists the Empire
by vkazanov 9y ago
As a Russian, and as a Russian interested in economical history of both the Russian Empire and the USSR, I have to notice that before the communists the Empire had serious famine problems [1], and had no serious modern (19-th centure style modern) economy, which did not allow for effective product exchange between regions. For example, the Empire was exporting a lot of grain, but still had regional hungers every 5-10 years.
"Deficit" literally means "lack of something", and hunger is definitely a lack of food.
Food supply problems in the region were only solved by late 30s (if one skips war-related problem of 40s), when painful - like, really painful - communist reforms and modernization settled down.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in_Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in_Russia...
- pandaman 9y ago>"Deficit" literally means "lack of something", and hunger is definitely a lack of food. Sure. Yet, being a Russian myself also familiar with the history, I cannot recall people using that word to describe "hunger". In Russian of 1970s-1980s the word "deficit" was used to refer to the goods not a lack of them, see this example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKWQ2UxXSLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKWQ2UxXSLY As for you remarks about RI's economy - I am not sure what you mean. In your own link there is no reference of an economy-related famine. Famines used to be caused by weather and wars all around the world.
- vkazanov 9y agoWeather acceptable as a famine cause is a clear sign of bad economy, don't you think so?