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Feeding the motherland: grain exports from the Swedish Baltic provinces during the Great Famine of 1696-1697

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The research carried out so far has explained the Great Famine of 1696-1697 in the Baltic provinces as a result of the total crop failures in 1695-1696 and an inadequate Swedish economic policy that emptied all the stocks in the provinces through massive grain exports to Finland and Sweden. However, both these views are not consistent with the closer study of the grain exports from the major ports of the Baltic provinces during the famine years. The analysis of Tallinn's customs books shows that the grain exports occurred only on a small scale compared to the normal years, due to the strict ban on grain exports to foreign markets. Furthermore, there is no proof that the markets in the bigger towns lacked available grain in those years. It can also be concluded that the volume of the grain exports was hardly enough to alleviate the famine crisis in Finland or Sweden.

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  • Marten Seppel, 2015. "Feeding the motherland: grain exports from the Swedish Baltic provinces during the Great Famine of 1696-1697," Scandinavian Economic History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 63(3), pages 215-234, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:sehrxx:v:63:y:2015:i:3:p:215-234
    DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2015.1081855
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