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The Big Show in Bololand - The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (Hardcover)
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The Big Show in Bololand - The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (Hardcover)
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When a devastating famine descended on Bolshevik Russia in 1921,
the United States responded with a massive two-year relief mission
that battled starvation and disease, and saved millions of lives.
The nearly 300 American relief workers were the first outsiders to
break through Russia's isolation, and to witness and record the
strange new phenomenon of Russia's Bolshevism. This epic tale is
related here as a sprawling American adventure story, largely
derived from the diaries, memoirs, and letters of the American
participants, who were a colorful mix of former doughboys, cowboys,
and college boys hungry for adventure in the wake of the Great War.
The story is told in an anecdotal, even novelistic, style that is
accessible to a broad readership. More than a fascinating
historical narrative, the book serves as a political and social
history of the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, and as a study
of the roots of the fateful U.S.-Soviet rivalry that would dominate
the second half of the twentieth century. The book's opening
section of chapters recounts the chronological story of the
American mission to Bolshevik Russia, dubbed by those who served as
the "Big Show in Bololand." It is followed by sections which
examine the personal triumphs and tragedies of the relief workers
and of their beneficiaries; the political confrontations between
these emissaries of American capitalism and the Bolshevik
commissars, who struggled to gain control over the relief effort;
and the unique American-Russian cultural encounter occasioned by
the presence of the relief workers, who came into daily contact
with all classes of society-from impoverished former aristocrats to
the poorest peasants.
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