..., 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...

...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...

...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...

...: Academic Press, 1975). 31. For examples, see Zoşa Szajkowski, The Mirage of American Jewish Aid in Soviet Russia (New York, 1977); Valery Dymshits et al., eds., The Hope and the Illusion: The Search for a Russian Jewish Homeland, A Remarkable Period in the History of ORT (London: WorldORT, 2006...

..., 2014. 344 pp., $65.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-19581-1. This book has a deliberately provocative thesis we should ask not why the two great socialist famines of China and Soviet Russia occurred, but rather why the regimes succeeded in preventing additional famine after they were over. The seemingly...

... provocative thesis we should ask not why the two great socialist famines of China and Soviet Russia occurred, but rather why the regimes succeeded in preventing additional famine after they were over. The seemingly apologist framing of the argument does not diminish this spectacularly creative and well...

... industriapl roduction toexceed thatof Great Britain, the second capitalistnation.A secondmotivation, as Mao became increasinglydisillusionedwithKhrushchev,was to sur pass Soviet Russia itselfand lead thecommunistworld. This global goal ofMao's requiredconsiderable sacrificefromChinese peasants as ever larger...

... more important to the proposal today, however, is that most colonies did not need permanent support. Rather, colonies in the Americas and in Soviet Russia became self-sustaining under a variety of regimes, allowing for the reduction or withdrawal of philanthropic aid. In the case of Bolivia raised...

... as a model and hands-on guide to their counterparts in America, Australia, and Soviet Russia. The literature is thin on the intertwined histories of farmers and farm associations across the North American northern plains. More than half a century ago, Paul Sharp broke ground on the subject, and that story...

... of the inevitability of the turn to a supposedly superior settled way of life (188). The efforts by the Soviets in the region were merely a continuation of the precedent established under Tsarist rule. The Soviets were motivated by the notion that better land would increase efficiency, thus benefitting Russia...

... of neo-Lysenkoism, or the idea that Lysenko s discredited theories deserve new recognition. In essence, Graham s book is an accessible history of genetics and its socialist variations as practiced in the Soviet Union and Russia up to the present day written by a leading scholar in the field. Jenny Leigh...

... and to raise questions about the exceptional nature of the history of this part of the American West, [the] United States in general, as well as Russia and the Soviet Union (28). To construct the complex story of Russia s influence on American agricultural development, Moon pieced together critical...

... of genetics and its socialist variations as practiced in the Soviet Union and Russia up to the present day written by a leading scholar in the field. Jenny Leigh Smith Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham: Recession and Recovery, c.1400 1640...

... 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...

... asserts; they are much more recipro cal. This observation seems apt. These unique forms of patronage carried over into the Soviet period as well. Elina's work isa close and careful description of thework of an elite cadre within imperial Russia. However, itdoes not provide a good overview of con nections...

... to nationality and race. When germany invaded the Soviet union in 1941, backe 554 2016 Book Reviews devised a plan to provision three million german soldiers from conquered territory by starving industrial centers in belarus and north and central russia and exploiting ukraine and the Caucasus. Scholars have long...

...Andy Bruno Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union . By Aaron Hale-Dorrell . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . 344 pp., $74.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-1906-4467-3. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews 757 pealed...

... Reviews devised a plan to provision three million german soldiers from conquered territory by starving industrial centers in belarus and north and central russia and exploiting ukraine and the Caucasus. Scholars have long agreed that the Third reich assumed its conquest for living space would involve...

..., and nation-state surveillance and border control policies. Urbansky takes as his geographic focus the Argun region, where the borderlands of present-day Mongolia, Russia, and China meet. Looking back to the early modern period, Urbansky argues in chapter 1 that, as late as the first half...

.... "The Peasantry and Village Soviets of South Ural in 1922- 1929." The Urals State Pedagogical University, Orenburg (Russia), 2003. Kuznetsov, M. V. "The Peasantry of Saratov Province During the Civil War, 1917-1922." Saratov State University (Russia), 2004. Labuzov, V. A. "Villages in the South Ural During...