Although the economy began to develop at first, in 1920, a civil war started which caused many bad things for the Russian economy. The government began obsessed with overtaking the westerners and this <span>caused the economy to suffer and caused economic disintegration, isolation, and famine.</span>
Explanation: smattering means a little bit of something. lily was surprised that only a (smattering) of branches had fallen out of the tree into the yard after the power thunderstorms the night before.
