Bread + Medicine: American Famine Relief in Soviet Russia, 1921-1923

by Bertrand M Patenaude and Joan Nabseth Stevenson

A century ago, the Soviet Union faced a catastrophic famine, brought on by the disruptions of the First World War and the Russian Revolution, draconian Soviet economic policies, and a severe drought. As millions of people faced starvation and hunger-related disease, the Russian writer Maxim Gorky issued an appeal for help, asking "all honest European and American people for prompt aid to the Russian people. Give bread and medicine." One person...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817925759
• ISBN13: 9780817925758
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press Stanford University
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.4" x 10.9"