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Finnish famine of 1866–1868

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was ill-equipped to handle a crisis of such magnitude. There was no money readily available to import food from largely monopolized Central European markets, and the government was slow to recognize the severity of the situation. Finance minister
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had developed yet that could have capitalized politically on the crisis. The urban population was small, and for the people of the countryside, the first priority was to resume normal lives. In short, the famine did not threaten the
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in late 1867, the crisis was already full blown, and grain prices had risen in Europe. In addition, it was difficult to transport what little aid could be mustered in a country with poor communications. A number of emergency
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After a promisingly warm midsummer, freezing temperatures in early September ravaged crops; as a result, the harvest was about half the average. By the autumn of 1867, people were dying by the thousands.
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Parts of the country had suffered poor harvests in previous years, most notably in 1862. The summer of 1866 was extremely rainy, and staple crops failed widely:
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Programs were launched to increase the diversity of Finnish agriculture, and rapidly improving communications made a recurrence of such a famine less likely.
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in the autumn were unfavourable. When stored food ran out, thousands took to the roads to beg. The following winter was hard, and spring was late. In
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to be able to do much more, and blame was directed mainly at local officials. No significant working class
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The weather returned to normal in 1868, and that year's harvest was somewhat better than average, yet,
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killing 270,000 people in the region. Municipalities that were particularly badly hit were Eno,
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In addition to hunger, 1866–68 saw what was thought of at the time as
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projects were set up, foremost among them the construction of the
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that had spread in the previous year took many additional lives.
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In Finland, the famine is known as "the great hunger years", or
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In general, ordinary Finns at the time saw the famine as an
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Gershwin, M. Eric; German, J. Bruce; Keen, Carl L. (2000).
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Ulla Piela, 'Loitsut 1800-luvun Pohjois-Karjalassa',
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