According to Dr. Schiller, what were the real causes of the famine?

First, the deportation and transportation of food. and second, The extinction of the population

Explanation:

"There are two factors which are simultaneously causing the diminution in the population of the Northern Caucasus now so clearly apparent.  Firstly, the measures for the deportation and transplanting of masses of the population, carried out an [sic] a large scale since last autumn iii connection with the State grain collection, and the fight against “sabotage” by the kulaks, or “rich” peasants.  Secondly, there is the extinction of the population through famine, now in full swing."

the social contract theory

in 550 b.c.e. cyrus the great, the leader of the persians, conquered the medes and united the iranian people under one ruler for the first time. cyrus became the first king of the persian empire and went on to establish one of the largest empires in world.