On the brink of famine: Odesa Province in the food policy of the communist regime in the early 1920s

The study aims to provide a systemic analysis of the implementation of the food dictatorship policy by the Communist (Bolshevik) regime in the Odesa Province in the early 1920s (on the eve of the mass famine): identifying regional specifics of its implementation, the reaction of the local population, and its role in the formation of a food crisis as a key precondition for the famine catastrophe in…