"Bread question" in the towns of the Right-Bank Ukraine during the First World War (1914-1917)
The bread supply beginning and worsening to the Right-Bank Ukraine towns during the First World War and the influence on daily-life of townspeople are elucidated in the article. It’s established that during the first year of the War a great struggle between local self-government organs and corn-merchants in the region took place as for fixed price bread determination. We see that the armed conflict coursed considerable changes at the bread market. The producers and representatives of trade circles tried in any way to avoid the determined rules of bread trade, increasing willfully prices and decreasing its quality. Sometimes they used to stop bread production baking making deficit in the towns. It’s elucidated that «bread question» in the Right-Bank Ukraine was sharply intensified in 1916 because of transport system collapse, that’s why the bread supply to the towns was irregular. Besides, the fixed bread prices made by the state didn’t satisfy landowners and corn produces that coursed the suggestion of the bread market, massive abuses from officials and speculators. All these were the reasons of long bread-lines and leading in of bread cards.