The Bolsheviks introduced the so-called “food requisition system,” seizing all grain — including seed grain — from farmers to ...

Lenin Orders More Strenuous Food Levies -- Germans Cold to Calls for Help. New York Times, July 19, 1921 BERLIN, July 18 -- Russia is entering on the worst famine within memory and one not ...

During this period of revolution, war, and famine, Lenin displayed a cold indifference to the suffering of his compatriots and ruthlessly crushed all opposition.