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- Title
Book reviews.
- Authors
Kramer, Alan
- Abstract
Assuming Lambert means solely wheat, because it was what concerned the British government as the main imported foodstuff, in the years 1909-1914, Russia exported 24.6% of the total of the seven principal wheat exporters, including overland exports.[49] Second, production and export of all grains fluctuate wildly every year, and both supply and demand are elastic. As shortages emerged, rationing was introduced for many foods in 1917 and 1918, but bread was never rationed.[37] The Context in 1914-1915: Russia and the Wheat Trade Lambert provides impressive detail on the demands of Russia for financial and material support from Britain. Russian wheat exports become so important to his argument that Lambert elevates them to the status of strategic goal: 'to carry Russian wheat out of the Black Sea ... was the primary strategic objective for the operation.'[8] Lambert does not contend that this idea is completely original. To prove his argument, Lambert posits a dramatic threat to the British food supply in the winter of 1914-1915, suggesting that the government was close to panic over the supply of wheat and rising bread prices.[9] The best solution was to restore the export of Russian wheat via the Straits.
- Subjects
WAR Lords &; the Gallipoli Disaster: How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War, The (Book); FOOD prices; RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine, 2022-; WORLD War I; RURAL poor
- Publication
War in History, 2023, Vol 30, Issue 2, p203
- ISSN
0968-3445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/09683445221113612