Krivonozhenko, A. F. FOOD PROBLEM IN KARELIA IN FIRST WORLD WAR AND ITS SOLUTION // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2018. No 7 (176). DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2018.232


Russian history

FOOD PROBLEM IN KARELIA IN FIRST WORLD WAR AND ITS SOLUTION

Krivonozhenko
A. F. 		Karelian Research Center of RAS
Keywords:
Karelia
Olonets province
Kemsky district
World War I
food crisis
peasantry
zemstvo
Murmansk railway		 Summary: The article is devoted to the study of the food crisis during the First World War in the territory of modern Karelia. The relevance of the topic is twofold. The first is due to the centenary of the end of the First World War and the attention of historians to this event. Secondly, the focus of public attention has traditionally been concentrated on the issue of public security. The scientific novelty of the article is that for the first time it conducted a comprehensive analysis of the causes of the food crisis in Karelia during the First World War. Also it was studied and how much the crisis affected the socioeconomic status of various strata of the region's population. It was established the low effectiveness of measures of state power undertaken to overcome. In addition, it was made a conclusion about the positive role of zemstvos and the self-organization of the population in order to combat high prices, speculation, smuggling of grain abroad and the threat of famine. It was found that the food crisis and low-effective measures of the state to overcome it became the reason for separatist sentiments among the peasants of the White Sea Karelia and the border parishes of Povenets Uyezd.



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