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Title of Article

LOCUST INVASIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE DURING THE 18th CENTURY: SPECIFICS OF PERCEPTION, ECONOMIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONSEQUENCES


Issue
6
Date
2014

Article type
scientific article
UDC
94 (470+571): (477.5) "17"
Pages
19-25
Keywords
famine, drought, locusts, natural disaster, bread, food, taxes, Eastern Europe


Authors
Volovik O.V.
Kievskiy natsionalnyy universitet imeni Tarasa Shevchenko, Ukraina


Abstract
Based on a wide range of archival materials and contemporaries' memoirs, the paper considers the effects of the invasion of locusts on the socio-economic and political life of Eastern Europe. Special attention is paid to the influence of the disaster on the provision of military units in the territory of Left-Bank Ukraine

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