... conditions. Since the weather was cold and warmth was hard to come by, the hut was closed up all winter and the air had become stale and it smelled of animal waste. Some of the stoves in the huts were made of clay and did not have chimney's and therefore, the hut would become smoky and sooty. This was an extreme ... sauerkraut (Blum, p.334). Potatoes were migrated from Germany and had been unimportant until the middle of the nineteenth century when things became difficult for Russia. The government initiated a program to farm potatoes and help boost the economy and crop crises. They wer...

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