The 1921-1922 famine in the Mennonite colonies of Orenburgskaya and Samarskaya guberniya

The article is devoted to the famine at the beginning of the 1920-s in the Mennonete settlements in Orenburg and Samara areas. The author determines the factors that account for the low indexes of famine death among the Mennonites in comparison with the neighboring German and Russian population, and stresses the role of coreligion relief from abroad that saved the people from the famine.