Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: Of the potential effects on Russia that resulted in large-scale population losses, which one would be considered out of the nation's control?, Context: The first half of the 20th century in Russia and the Soviet Union was marked by a succession of wars, famines and other disasters, each accompanied by large-scale population losses. Stephen J. Lee estimates that, by the end of World War II in 1945, the Russian population was about 90 million fewer than it could have been otherwise.
A:
disasters