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BIG SHOW IN BOLOLAND: AMERICAN RELIEF EXPEDITION TO SOVIET By Bertrand M.
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- Book Title
- The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to
- ISBN-10
- 080474467X
- Genre
- HISTORY
- ISBN
- 9780804744676
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
080474467X
ISBN-13
9780804744676
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038426520
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
832 Pages
Publication Name
Big Show in Bololand : the American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921
Language
English
Subject
United States / 20th Century, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Modern / 20th Century, Disasters & Disaster Relief
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
50.4 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2002-005860
Reviews
"This is a highly original and important work on a fascinating episode in American-Russian relations that has had little attention, either in America or in Russia. Patenaude has presented it brilliantly. What impresses one most about this work is the skill and imagination with which the author has captured so many dimensions of the American famine relief effort, and of a tragic period in Russian history. The literary style is outstanding, with vivid descriptions of events, people, and landscapes."-Herbert J. Ellison, University of Washington, This is a highly original and important work on a fascinating episode in American-Russian relations that has had little attention, either in America or in Russia. Patenaude has presented it brilliantly. What impresses one most about this work is the skill and imagination with which the author has captured so many dimensions of the American famine relief effort, and of a tragic period in Russian history. The literary style is outstanding, with vivid descriptions of events, people, and landscapes."—Herbert J. Ellison, University of Washington, "This is good background information for Russophiles or scholars in Soviet history. Recommended for academic libraries and public libraries with Soviet history collections."--Library Journal, "Bert Patenaude has written a richly informative and unusually engaging book. In the history of a long-forgotten episode-the American famine relief effort in the new-born Soviet Union in 1921-he has found a template for understanding much of what transpired thereafter in the Soviet-American relationship. And he has done it with brio, marshalling a colorful cast of characters, Soviet as well as American-including especially Herbert Hoover who emerges in a fresh and intriguing light."-David M. Kennedy, author of Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, "This is a highly original and important work on a fascinating episode in American-Russian relations that has had little attention, either in America or in Russia. Patenaude has presented it brilliantly. What impresses one most about this work is the skill and imagination with which the author has captured so many dimensions of the American famine relief effort, and of a tragic period in Russian history. The literary style is outstanding, with vivid descriptions of events, people, and landscapes."--Herbert J. Ellison, University of Washington, Every generation has to learn history anew and in The Big Show in Bololand . . . .Bertrand M. Patenaude gives us a superb lesson . . . .Based on diaries, private letters and memoirs plus startling and disturbing photographs of the dead and dying, especially orphaned children, the book affords a shocking glimpse of Russia after the revolution."— The Washington Times, "This book is to be warmly welcomed as the first full, and admirably presented, account of this major crisis in Soviet history-important, too, as an American experience. Here is not only the dramatic story of the American rescue operation, but also of the astonishing confrontations between the lifesavers and those who resented and sabotaged them."-Robert Conquest, author of The Great Terror and The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror Famine, "This is good background information for Russophiles or scholars in Soviet history. Recommended for academic libraries and public libraries with Soviet history collections."-- Library Journal, This is good background information for Russophiles or scholars in Soviet history. Recommended for academic libraries and public libraries with Soviet history collections."— Library Journal, "Bert Patenaude has written a richly informative and unusually engaging book. In the history of a long-forgotten episode--the American famine relief effort in the new-born Soviet Union in 1921--he has found a template for understanding much of what transpired thereafter in the Soviet-American relationship. And he has done it with brio, marshalling a colorful cast of characters, Soviet as well as American--including especially Herbert Hoover who emerges in a fresh and intriguing light."--David M. Kennedy, author of Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, "This book is to be warmly welcomed as the first full, and admirably presented, account of this major crisis in Soviet history--important, too, as an American experience. Here is not only the dramatic story of the American rescue operation, but also of the astonishing confrontations between the lifesavers and those who resented and sabotaged them."--Robert Conquest, author of The Great Terror and The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror Famine, Bert Patenaude has written a richly informative and unusually engaging book. In the history of a long-forgotten episode—the American famine relief effort in the new-born Soviet Union in 1921—he has found a template for understanding much of what transpired thereafter in the Soviet-American relationship. And he has done it with brio, marshalling a colorful cast of characters, Soviet as well as American—including especially Herbert Hoover who emerges in a fresh and intriguing light."—David M. Kennedy, author of Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, "Every generation has to learn history anew and in The Big Show in Bololand . . . .Bertrand M. Patenaude gives us a superb lesson . . . .Based on diaries, private letters and memoirs plus startling and disturbing photographs of the dead and dying, especially orphaned children, the book affords a shocking glimpse of Russia after the revolution."-- The Washington Times, "This is good background information for Russophiles or scholars in Soviet history. Recommended for academic libraries and public libraries with Soviet history collections."-- Library Journal "Patenaude must be congratulated for preparing a well-written, thoroughly researched, definitive study of the ARA in Russia."-- Kentucky Historical Society "...an outstanding piece of history."-- Slavic Review "This book is essential reading for any historian of the twentieth century."-- American Historical Review "This spacious and engaging work provides far and away thebest account yet..."-- Histoire Sociale, "This is good background information for Russophiles or scholars in Soviet history. Recommended for academic libraries and public libraries with Soviet history collections."- Library Journal, "Every generation has to learn history anew and in The Big Show in Bololand . . . .Bertrand M. Patenaude gives us a superb lesson . . . .Based on diaries, private letters and memoirs plus startling and disturbing photographs of the dead and dying, especially orphaned children, the book affords a shocking glimpse of Russia after the revolution."- The Washington Times, This book is to be warmly welcomed as the first full, and admirably presented, account of this major crisis in Soviet history—important, too, as an American experience. Here is not only the dramatic story of the American rescue operation, but also of the astonishing confrontations between the lifesavers and those who resented and sabotaged them."—Robert Conquest, author of The Great Terror and The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror Famine
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Synopsis
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., When a devastating famine descended on Bolshevik Russia in 1921, the United States responded with a massive relief program that included nearly 300 American relief workers who were the first outsiders to witness and record Russia's Bolshevism. This epic tale is here related as an American adventure story, largely derived from the diaries, memoirs, and letters of the diverse and colorful group of American participants.
LC Classification Number
HC340.F3P38 2002
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