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European History Period 5 3/23/04 Timeline of Events Leading Up to the Russian Revolutions of 1917 1891 - The Great Famine hits Russia. The summer rains did not come that year, leaving people without a drop of water for over 100 days at one point. The fertile green area between the Ural Mountains and the Black Sea, where the majority of the country's food was farmed, dried up entirely. Lakes disappeared and entire forests turned brown and withered up. Many peasants left their homes in a futile search for areas that still had food. The people began to weaken, leaving them vulnerable to huge epidemics of cholera and typhus. Half a million people had died by the end of 1892. Many people were shocked by the response of the government to this crisis. For many weeks, the government continued to export grain even while people within the country were dying. Many of those...

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