Revolutions are born in breadlines
The famine in the Volga Region in the early 1920s was a humanitarian disaster, but it kick started about a decade of agricultural cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United States. Anti-communists sent food and medical assistance. Communist sympathisers sent tractors. Agricultural experts from each country visited the other to teach and to learn.
Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935, a new book by Maria Fedorova, assistant professor in the Department of Russian Studies at Macalester College in Minnesota, documents what happened.
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