| Description |
vii, 817 pages [50 pages] plates; illustrations, maps ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [781]-790) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : future corpses -- The battlefield of famine : Russia's crisis and America's response -- Going in -- Food and weapons -- The kingdom of hunger -- Making the show a go -- The neck of the bottle -- Haskell at the bat -- Home front -- Putting the job over -- The gift horse -- Love and death on the Volga : dramas and distractions at the famine front -- Theaters of action -- Funerals -- Travelers -- Gunmen -- Tales of cannibalism -- Flight of the flivver -- Entertainments -- Entr'acte -- Backstage Entanglements -- Denouement -- Say it ain't so, comrade : American adventures in the communist utopia -- Red days in Russia -- Comrade Eiduk -- Comrade Skvortsov -- The professor and the sailor -- And the show whirled merrily on -- Food as a weapon -- Shoot the interpreter -- Vodka as a weapon -- Machine politics -- Playing the game -- Masters of efficiency : youthful America confronts eternal Russia -- A taste of power -- Conquering new worlds -- From the bell tower -- Time meant nothing -- The business of relief -- We are all thieves -- The mask of Mammon -- Stealing the thunder -- Mad monks and holy fools -- Dangerous men in Russia -- The wind and the sun. |
| Subject |
Famines -- Soviet Union -- History.
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American Relief Administration.
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Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936.
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| ISBN |
080474467X cloth alkaline paper |
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0804744939 paperback alkaline paper |
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