Binding: Paperback
Description: An award - winning historian reveals the harrowing little - known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election cooperation between the United States and Russia seems impossible to imagine and yet as Douglas Smith reveals it has a forgotten but astonishing historical precedent. In 1921, facing one of the worst famines in history the new Soviet government under Vladimir Lenin invited the American Relief Administration Herbert Hoover's brainchild to save communist Russia from ruin. For two years a small daring band of Americans fed more than ten million men women and children across a million square miles of territory. It was the largest humanitarian operation in history preventing the loss of countless lives social unrest on a massive scale and quite possibly the collapse of the communist state. Now almost a hundred years later few in either America or Russia have heard of the AR a. The Soviet government quickly began to erase the memory of American charity. In America fanatical anti - communism would eclipse this historic cooperation with the Soviet Union. Smith resurrects the American relief mission from obscurity taking the reader on an unforgettable journey from the heights of human altruism to the depths of human depravity. The story of the AR a is filled with political intrigue espionage the clash of ideologies violence adventure and romance and features some of the great historical figures of the twentieth century. In a time of cynicism and despair about the world's ability to confront international crises The Russian Job is a riveting account of a cooperative effort unmatched before or since.
Title: The Russian Job The Forgotten Story Of How America Saved The Soviet Union From Ruin
Author(s): Smith Douglas
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250758118
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/10/2020
Category: European History