{"product_id":"the-big-show-in-bololand-9780804744676","title":"The Big Show in Bololand","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is good background information for Russophiles or scholars in Soviet history. Recommended for academic libraries and public libraries with Soviet history collections.\" -- \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is essential reading for any historian of the twentieth century.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eFreedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Every generation has to learn history anew and in \u003ci\u003eThe Big Show in Bololand\u003c\/i\u003e . . . .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.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This spacious and engaging work provides far and away thebest account yet...\" -- \u003ci\u003eHistoire Sociale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...an outstanding piece of history.\" -- \u003ci\u003eSlavic Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Patenaude must be congratulated for preparing a well-written, thoroughly researched, definitive study of the ARA in Russia.\" -- \u003ci\u003eKentucky Historical Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Great Terror\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror Famine\u003c\/i\u003e *","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405551116631,"sku":"9780804744676","price":118.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804744676.jpg?v=1730492800","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-big-show-in-bololand-9780804744676","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}