Abstract: the article examines the food crisis in Russia during the First World War. The author used a significant archive material, revealing the growth of the revolutionism of workers in large industrial regions, in particular – Donbass. The rise in prices and the decline in real wages led to workers’ strikes. The slogans “Down with hunger!”, “Bread!” were dominant in the February 1917 bourgeois-democratic revolution.
Keywords: World War, strike, wages, food policy, food, bread, prices
49-55 p.