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About the product A tremendous catastrophe, in the face of which representatives of opposing political systems rallied. An amazing story, which was not accepted to be remembered either in the USSR or in the USA. The time has come to return the debt of memory to those who, despite all the political differences, remained human. In 1921, the power of the Bolsheviks was balancing on an abyss. And this was not the fault of the intervention or the machinations of internal enemies. The fault was the unprecedented scale of famine, literally destroying the Volga region. There was no time for reflection, and the government made an official request for help to its main ideological enemy — the capitalist United States of America. Representatives of the American Relief Administration (APA), headed by the future thirty-first President of the United States, Herbert Hoover, came to Soviet Russia. The people on both sides involved in this most ambitious humanitarian mission in the history of mankind at that time were very different. Those who believed unconditionally, and those who did not trust anyone to the last, those who saved despite any political risks, and those who thought most of all about building a successful career, those who served a mission, and those who sabotaged her. After the end of the ARA’s activities, the Soviet government assured that it would never forget the assistance provided. But after a few years, it tried to destroy any mention of this American «Russian» mission. Annotation The famine that struck the Volga region in 1921 became not just a disaster, but a humanitarian catastrophe that was talked about all over the world. In the end, the Bolsheviks were forced to turn for help to their main ideological enemy — the capitalist United States of America. Led by future US President Herbert Hoover, the American Relief Administration (APA) led the largest humanitarian mission in human history to date. The book tells how in two years the ARA managed to save more than ten million people from starvation and prevent not only an even greater tragedy, but also quite possibly — the collapse of the entire Soviet system, for which the food issue was a matter of the government’s survival. …
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