Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Through Starving Russia: Being the Record of a Journey to Moscow and the Volga Provinces in August and September 1921
Soon far exceed, even the most deliberately sensational descriptions that have been writ ten of it. It is a calamity more dreadful than any other of its kind that has ever overtaken a European country. Though it has as yet scarcely begun, it is already almost too horrible for comprehension. A huge part of Russia, containing a population of some thirty-five million men, women, and children, has harvested barely a month's supply of food, which is all that they have to support them until next autumn, when the next harvest becomes due. For reasons explained in this book, it is very likely that the 1922 harvest also may be a failure, in which case the extent Of the catastrophe will be almost beyond computation. All the European and Asiatic countries bordering Russia may be drawn into the grip of hunger, disease, and disorder.
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