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The important people in this chapter
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The Soviets
The Russian famine of 1921-1922
The Russian famine of 1921–22 was a severe famine that began early in the spring of 1921 and lasted through 1922.
This famine killed an estimated 5 million people, primarily affecting the Volga and Ural River regions, and peasants resorted to cannibalism.
The famine resulted from the combined effects of economic disturbance because of the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War, exacerbated by rail systems that could not distribute food efficiently.
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The Free City of Danzig
The Free City of Danzig was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 towns and villages in the surrounding areas.
About Danzig:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Danzig
https://www.freecitysourcebook.com/
About Russian emigres and Russia:
http://militera.lib.ru/research/shambarov2/03.html
Thanks
Special gratitude to Marina Gewlitch Chatsky – Maria Kamendrovsky’s daughter – for sharing her family memories and her mother’s story in her small apartment in Queens, New York, some twenty years ago (see sources for her story).