..., distribution networks, and roles of relief workers, among others, became points of discussion and an open confrontation ensued among different organizations. This article analyzes competing visions of US famine relief to Soviet Russia during the devastating Volga famine of 1921–23. Unofficially presided over...

...Colleen M. Moore Tsardom of Sufficiency, Empire of Norms: Statistics, Land Allotments, and Agrarian Reform in Russia, 1700–1921 . By David W. Darrow . Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press , 2018 . 376 pp., $44.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7735-5507-5. © 2019 Agricultural...

...James Simms Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars . Alison K. Smith . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews affectpovertyinmultipleways,giventhatagriculturaalctivitiefsormpartof a complexsetoflivelihoodandincomestrategiefsormostruralhouseholds...

...Jenny Leigh Smith Lysenko’s Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia . By Loren Graham . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2016 . 224 pp., $24.94 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-6740-8905-1 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 434 Agricultural History Lysenko s Ghost: Epigenetics...

...Karen Petrone Two Years in Russia: 1925–1927, a Joint Venture in a Soviet Village . Anne Borders Lynch . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 130 / Agricultural History lems. New aquatic plants and many varieties of rodents disrupted stream flows while weeds and harmful...

... with his own case studies. But there is no doubt that his study offers a fresh and important perspective on a topic that remains current and vibrant and which, in the present economic context, is likely to do so for some time to come. Phillipp Schofield Aberystwyth University Land Reform in Russia...

...Jenny Leigh Smith The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700–1914 . By David Moon . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 344 pp., £69.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-955643-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015...

...Seth Bernstein; Robert Cherny Abstract In 1922 a group of Americans moved from the Pacific Northwest to Soviet Russia to settle an agricultural commune they called Seattle. The Seattle Commune was one among many enterprises founded by foreign sympathizers in the new Soviet republic. All...

... to restore the system of land tenure Mennonites had practiced in Imperial Russia. Conservative Mennonites had reified a tsarist-imposed system of semi-communal land tenure, making it a requirement of faithful religious and social practice. These sensibilities were, however, incompatible with the land tenure...

... touches upon the theme in passing. Another missing issue is ethnicity. I was never quite certain of the region under study, whether it is “Russia” in its incarnations as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Soviet period) followed by the Russian Federation in 1991, or, alternately, whether...

... Russia peasants food supply revolution civil war T he unexpected duration of World War I created significant challenges for each of the European belligerents as they struggled to adequately provision their armed forces and civilian populations. In each country, urban-based industries expanded...

...), 2004. Dissertations, 2003-2005 / 225 Anisimova, L. U. "The Evolution of Functions of the Russian Peasant Family in the Enisei Region in the 1920s." Krasnoyarsk Pedagogical University (Russia), 2004. Astashova, A. N. "The Peasantry of Voronezh Province in 1850-1890." Voronezh State Pedagogical...

... and nonspecialists alike. The book would make a welcome and important contribution to a class in food studies or Russian culture. If there were moments of excess among the elites, food scarcity cast a long shadow over the tables of most Russians. Russia's severe winters, frequent droughts, and floods made food...

... environmental history. The American Steppes is the first monograph to trace the transfers of plants, agricultural sciences and techniques from the [Eurasian] steppes to the Great Plains (33). Through extensive research in archives located in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, and the United States, Moon has...

... passing the benefit back to Russia. For instance, the Tsarist regime set out to conquer and tame what had once been viewed as a wasteland, hoping to tap into the profits that agricultural production could bring. Profits, of course, were dependent on proper irrigation. Russian bureaucrats in the region...

... quotas). In the mid-twentieth century, the United States built a postwar “empire of grain” based on the strategic accumulation and disposal of massive grain surpluses, contributing significantly to American soft power. It would be equally fascinating for Nelson to apply his analytical lens to Russia's...

... Library, Brookings, South Dakota (hereafter referred to as N. E. Hansen Papers). 2. The term “stan” in Persian means “place of,” hence Kazakhstan means “place of the Kazakhs.” 3. There is excellent recent research on the agricultural ties between the United States and Russia and the Soviet Union...

... with the finest details. Even though his focus in this book is more on aspects of "everyday life" that reveal "a hidden world of dynamic social relationships and cultural understandings" (106), Mennonite histories in Northern Europe, Russia, Canada, and the United States all lie within his purview. Loewen...

... settlement in Bessarabia became legal in tsarist Russia in the mid-1830s. Several thousand Jews lived in these colonies. For details, see Yosef Mazur, Haklaim yehudim ba-golah: ha-hityashvut ha-haklait ha-yehudit be-Besarabia (1837-1941) ve-hishtakfutah be-kitvei Sh.L. Blank (Jerusalem: Carmel, 2006...

.... Peterson also points to the diversity of the region as one of the reasons why it was never successfully colonized. There are also several parallels on the failed administration of Central Asia alongside the failings of Tsarist and Soviet administration in general. Russia was confused with regards...