Author: Weissman, Benjamin M.
Title: Herbert Hoover and Femine Relief to Soviet Russia 1921-23
Description: Stanford, California, Hoover Institution Press, 1974. Hardcover. mustard cloth boards w/ black spine printing. book xv, 247 pg. tan illustrated dustjacket w/ protective plastic. From a college library. Due date card has one removal stamp. Interior clean. Remains tightly bound. "n 1921 one of the most devastating famines in history threatened the lives of millions of Russians as well as the continuance of Soviet rule. Responding to a plea for help from the Soviet government. the American Relief Administration (ARA) agreed to provide famine relief in the stricken areas. The ARA was a private relief organization headed by Herbert Hoover, then U.S. secretary of commerce and one of the best-known Americans of his time for his spectacular success in rescuing the population of Belgium from starvation during World War I and in feeding millions of Europeans during the Armistice. Hoover was also a retired capitalist of considerable wealth, a champion of Republican liberalism, and a leading opponent of recognition of Soviet Russia. Lenin head of the Sovet government, leader of the Bolshevik party, and living symbol of world revolution was the antithesis of the ARA's chief. This book studies the personalities, motives, and modi operandi of these two celebrated figures, both as indivduals and as representatives of their societies. At the same time it considers the relief mission itself, which has been the subject of continuing controversy for fifty years. Its partisans see it as a charitable, nonpolitical enterprise, while its enemies judge it an anti-Soviet intervention entirely devoid of humanitarian purpose. Herbert Hoover and Famine Relief for Soviet Russia is the first major attempt by an American scholar to reexamine the ARA mission, on the basis of much material made available since the ARA's 1927 official history."--Amazon. VG- (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, internal stamps, usual markings etc. edge-wear to covers. dustjacket taped to cover edges, ID to lower spine; plastic scuffed.) .
Keywords: Russian Famine, Russian Famine Relief, Herbert Hoover ; Russian Famine, Russian Famine Relief ; ;
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Title: Herbert Hoover and Femine Relief to Soviet Russia 1921-23
Description: Stanford, California, Hoover Institution Press, 1974. Hardcover. mustard cloth boards w/ black spine printing. book xv, 247 pg. tan illustrated dustjacket w/ protective plastic. From a college library. Due date card has one removal stamp. Interior clean. Remains tightly bound. "n 1921 one of the most devastating famines in history threatened the lives of millions of Russians as well as the continuance of Soviet rule. Responding to a plea for help from the Soviet government. the American Relief Administration (ARA) agreed to provide famine relief in the stricken areas. The ARA was a private relief organization headed by Herbert Hoover, then U.S. secretary of commerce and one of the best-known Americans of his time for his spectacular success in rescuing the population of Belgium from starvation during World War I and in feeding millions of Europeans during the Armistice. Hoover was also a retired capitalist of considerable wealth, a champion of Republican liberalism, and a leading opponent of recognition of Soviet Russia. Lenin head of the Sovet government, leader of the Bolshevik party, and living symbol of world revolution was the antithesis of the ARA's chief. This book studies the personalities, motives, and modi operandi of these two celebrated figures, both as indivduals and as representatives of their societies. At the same time it considers the relief mission itself, which has been the subject of continuing controversy for fifty years. Its partisans see it as a charitable, nonpolitical enterprise, while its enemies judge it an anti-Soviet intervention entirely devoid of humanitarian purpose. Herbert Hoover and Famine Relief for Soviet Russia is the first major attempt by an American scholar to reexamine the ARA mission, on the basis of much material made available since the ARA's 1927 official history."--Amazon. VG- (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, internal stamps, usual markings etc. edge-wear to covers. dustjacket taped to cover edges, ID to lower spine; plastic scuffed.) .
Keywords: Russian Famine, Russian Famine Relief, Herbert Hoover ; Russian Famine, Russian Famine Relief ; ;
Price: US$ 60.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 184845
- Book number: 184845
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