Born Then1917–1922
Life during the Russian Revolution and Civil War
Be born in a place it hit, a few years before it began, and see what it did to five ordinary lives.
What it meant for ordinary people
The 1917 revolutions brought the Bolsheviks to power, followed by a civil war, terror on both sides and the seizure of grain from villages. Typhus and the 1921 famine killed more people than the fighting; about a million or more emigrated.
Deaths: about 7–12 million, mostly civilians, from fighting, terror, typhus and the 1921 famine.
How hard it hits each person in the game (risk of death, of being conscripted, of leaving) comes from scholarly estimates.
Around the same time
- British emigration to the colonies and America 1815–1913
- Indian indenture system 1834–1917
- Chinese emigration from Guangdong and Fujian 1845–1913
- Irish emigration after the Famine 1852–1913
- Third plague pandemic 1855–1930
- Polish emigration "za chlebem" 1870–1913
- Reforms of King Chulalongkorn 1874–1910
- Great Italian emigration 1880–1913
- Pogroms in the Russian Empire 1881–1906
- Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885–1908
- African rinderpest epizootic 1888–1897
- Panic of 1893 1893–1897
- Spanish–American War 1898
- Sixth cholera pandemic 1899–1923
- Boxer Rebellion 1899–1901
- Indian famine of 1899–1900 1899–1900
- Philippine–American War 1899–1902
- Thousand Days' War 1899–1902
- Second Boer War 1899–1902
- Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905
- Herero and Nama genocide 1904–1908
- Maji Maji Rebellion 1905–1907
- Korea under Japanese rule 1910–1945
- Mexican Revolution 1910–1920
- Balkan Wars 1912–1913
- World War I in Europe 1914–1918
- World War I in the Ottoman Empire 1914–1918
- World War I for the United States, Canada and Australia 1914–1918
- Armenian genocide 1915–1917
- Great Migration of Black Americans 1916–1970