The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin

by Douglas Smith and Douglas Smith

Book Overview

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster

After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia seems impossible to imagine--and yet, as Douglas Smith reveals, it has a forgotten but astonishing historical precedent.

In 1921, facing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374252963
• ISBN13: 9780374252960
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"