FOOD SITUATION AND FOOD POLICY OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1917
The article discusses the features of the food supply of the population of Russia during the First World War, which acted as the main factors that accelerated the revolutionary processes in 1917. Analyzed the activities of the tsarist government to organize the process of procurement of products, to introduce the allocation of grain bread and fodder. An analysis is made of the rule making of the Provisional Government in the sphere of regulation of the agrarian issue, the introduction of a grain monopoly, the formation of food committees for their activities in the use of sown lands by peasants and their protection from all kinds of encroachments. The problems of supplying the army and the rear that the Provisional Government faced, attempts at centralized food procurement and the resistance of the main producer of the landowner, as well as the search for ways to resolve these problems are considered.