Few people outside Kazakhstan know of the famine that destroyed nomadic life in the 1930s, and left more than a third of the population dead or displaced to China and far beyond. Yet even within ...

Discover the history of the Holodomor, the devastating famine that struck Ukraine in the 1930s. This video examines how Soviet policies led to one of the deadliest famines in human history.

The Time of Troubles is one of the most dramatic periods in the history of Russia. It was the period of the collapse of statehood, when Russia was experiencing the first civil war in its history and ...

Somalia is on the brink of its worst famine in half a century as drought intensifies and global food prices soar, leaving ...

The situation was catastrophically aggravated by natural disasters: the massive famine of 1601-1603 due to crop failure ...