The Great Famine was triggered by the potato blight, but it was intensified by cruel policy on the part of Ireland’s British masters, who ensured that rich stores of grain and livestock were ...

New research from the Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University and Queen's Business School in Belfast has examined ...

Mr Dikötter, in his 2010 book “Mao’s Great Famine”, argued that 45m died, including those who were worked or beaten to death. Yang Jisheng, a Chinese journalist, put the figure at 36m in ...

Discover how the Great Leap Forward aimed to modernize China but resulted in mass famine and economic failure, impacting ...

On a cold November day in 1848, a landlord’s crowbar brigade leveled the homes of 700 tenants in Tonagh, Co. Cavan — a brutal moment in Ireland’s darkest chapter, the Great Hunger.

Many people know about the Great Depression, or the Syrian refugee crisis, but not as many people know about the Great Chinese Famine, another tragic event in history. The famine started with Chairman ...

If we take action now, like we did 100 years ago during the Great Russian Famine, we can save lives in these hunger afflicted nations. Herbert Hoover (far right) led famine relief efforts for Russia.

When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Americans responded with a massive two-year ...

The world's leading authority on food crises has determined that the Gaza Strip's largest city is now gripped by famine.

The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a documentary about the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black ...