Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210100278

最后一次苏联饥荒，1946/47：战争后的干旱和粮食危机。这个项目旨在通过分析苏联和现代欧洲历史上最近发生的、但最不为人所知的饥荒，来增加我们对干旱和饥荒之间关系的理解。这场饥荒是在1946年夏天苏联西部发生大规模干旱之后发生的，导致至少100万人死亡。考虑到澳大利亚和全球日益频繁的严重和持久干旱对粮食安全、市场和贸易构成的日益严重的威胁，这项研究是及时的。这项研究的预期结果是产生具有当代应用的新的历史知识，以便更好地为政策方针提供信息，以期减少旱灾造成的粮食危机的威胁。

The Last Soviet Famine, 1946/47: Drought and food crises in war's aftermath. This project aims to increase our understanding of the relationship between drought and famine by analysing the most recent, though least understood famine in Soviet and Modern European History. This famine followed a massive drought in the summer of 1946 across the western Soviet Union and led to the deaths of at least one million people. This research is timely given the growing threats to food security, markets and trade posed by the increasing incidence of severe and enduring drought in Australia and globally. The expected outcome of this research is to produce new historical knowledge with contemporary application to better inform policy approaches with the expected benefit of reducing the threat of food crises emerging from drought.