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The big show in Bololand : the American relief expedition to Soviet Russia in the famine of 1921

When famine struck Bolshevik Russia in 1921, the US responded with a two-year relief mission that battled starvation and disease, and saved millions of lives. The tale told here is largely derived from the diaries, memoirs and letters of the American participants
Print Book, English, 2002
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2002
History
viii, 817 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
9780804744676, 9780804744935, 080474467X, 0804744939
49619062
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