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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Pyotr Romanov)
long before the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Graziosi says many of those who led the bloody 1918-1921 peasant revolts, including Nestor Makhno (1888-1934) and Alexander Antonov (1888-1922), had made a name for themselves during the First Russian Revolution of 1905-1907.The Tsarist Government, rather than the Bolsheviks, had introduced the food-surplus appropriation system at the beginning of World War I. The Provisional Government simulated this strategy, with the Bolsheviks introducing even tougher measures from 1918 through 1921 during the Russian Civil War. However, Russian and Ukrainian peasants always resisted food-supply squads under Nicholas II (1868-1818), Alexander Kerensky (1881-1970) and the Red Commissars.
Although famines were not uncommon in the former Russian Empire, Ukraine only remembers the tragedy of 1932-1933. However, the 1921 Russian famine that affected mostly the Volga-Ural region was no less terrible. In the early 1930s, famine spread
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