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The big show in Bololand : the American relief expedition to Soviet Russia in the famine of 1921
Title
The big show in Bololand : the American relief expedition to Soviet Russia in the famine of 1921 / Bertrand M. Patenaude.
ISBN
080474467X (cloth : alk. paper)
0804744939 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.
Physical Description
viii, 817 p.: ill., maps; 26 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 05, 2003
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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