Author: Benjamin M. Weissman
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
ISBN: 9780817913434
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In 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 Soviet 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 individuals 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. What emerges is, on the one hand, a painstaking examination of the historical details of ARA's mission and, on the other hand, a philosophic essay relating the ARA to broader questions of U.S.-Soviet relations the ideological antitheses of Hoover and Lenin. The author concludes that both sides overcame their ideological antagonisms and made possible a spectacularly successful relief mission that inspired the vain hope that a new era in Soviet-American relations had begun.
The Famine in Soviet Russia, 1919-1923
Author: Harold Henry Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Herbert Hoover and Famine Relief to Soviet Russia, 1921–1923
Author: Benjamin M. Weissman
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
ISBN: 9780817913434
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In 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 Soviet 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 individuals 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. What emerges is, on the one hand, a painstaking examination of the historical details of ARA's mission and, on the other hand, a philosophic essay relating the ARA to broader questions of U.S.-Soviet relations the ideological antitheses of Hoover and Lenin. The author concludes that both sides overcame their ideological antagonisms and made possible a spectacularly successful relief mission that inspired the vain hope that a new era in Soviet-American relations had begun.
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
ISBN: 9780817913434
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In 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 Soviet 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 individuals 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. What emerges is, on the one hand, a painstaking examination of the historical details of ARA's mission and, on the other hand, a philosophic essay relating the ARA to broader questions of U.S.-Soviet relations the ideological antitheses of Hoover and Lenin. The author concludes that both sides overcame their ideological antagonisms and made possible a spectacularly successful relief mission that inspired the vain hope that a new era in Soviet-American relations had begun.
American Medical and Sanitary Relief in the Russian Famine, 1921-1923
Author: Henry Beeuwkes
Publisher:
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Category : Disasters
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Disasters
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Famines and Relief Administration
Author: N. Neelakanteswara Rao
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Case studies
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Case studies
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Russian Famines, 1921-22, 1922-23
Author: National Information Bureau (U.S.). Commission on Russian Relief
Publisher:
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Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Famine in Soviet Russia, 1919-1923
Author: Harold Henry Fisher
Publisher:
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Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
The Challenges of Famine Relief
Author: Francis Mading Deng
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815717911
Category : Drought relief
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The book outlines four problem areas exemplified in the response to each crisis: the external nature of famine relief, the relationship between relief activities and endemic problems, the coordination of such activities, and the ambivalence of the results. The authors identify the many difficulties inherent in providing emergency relief to populations caught in circumstances of life-threatening famine. They show how such famine emergencies reflect the most extreme breakdown of social order and present the most compelling imperatives for international action. Deng and Minear also discuss how the international community, alerted by the media and mobilized by the Ethiopian famine, moved in to fill the moral void left by the government and how outside organizations worked together to pressure Sudan's political authorities to be more responsive to these tragedies. Looking ahead, the authors highlight the implications for future involvement in humanitarian initiatives in a new world order.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815717911
Category : Drought relief
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The book outlines four problem areas exemplified in the response to each crisis: the external nature of famine relief, the relationship between relief activities and endemic problems, the coordination of such activities, and the ambivalence of the results. The authors identify the many difficulties inherent in providing emergency relief to populations caught in circumstances of life-threatening famine. They show how such famine emergencies reflect the most extreme breakdown of social order and present the most compelling imperatives for international action. Deng and Minear also discuss how the international community, alerted by the media and mobilized by the Ethiopian famine, moved in to fill the moral void left by the government and how outside organizations worked together to pressure Sudan's political authorities to be more responsive to these tragedies. Looking ahead, the authors highlight the implications for future involvement in humanitarian initiatives in a new world order.
FAMINE IN SOVIET RUSSIA, 1919-1923
Author: HAROLD H. FISHER
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033663226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033663226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: American Relief Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reconstruction (1914-1939)
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reconstruction (1914-1939)
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
American Medical and Sanitary Relief in the Russian Famine, 1921-1923
Author: Henry Beeuwkes
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description