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100 1  Smith, Douglas,|d1962-|eauthor. 
245 14 The Russian job :|bthe forgotten story of how America 
       saved the Soviet Union from ruin|h[Hoopla electronic 
       resource] /|cDouglas Smith. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bMacmillan Audio,|c2019. 
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511 0  Read by Natasha Soudek. 
520    An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-
       known story of an American effort to save the newly formed
       Soviet Union from disaster.  After decades of the Cold War
       and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in 
       the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States 
       and Russia seems impossible to imagine-and yet, as Douglas
       Smith reveals, it has a forgotten but astonishing 
       historical precedent.  In 1921, facing one of the worst 
       famines in history, the new Soviet government under 
       Vladimir Lenin invited the American Relief Administration,
       Herbert Hoover's brainchild, to save communist Russia from
       ruin. For two years, a small, daring band of Americans fed
       more than ten million men, women, and children across a 
       million square miles of territory. It was the largest 
       humanitarian operation in history-preventing the loss of 
       countless lives, social unrest on a massive scale, and, 
       quite possibly, the collapse of the communist state.  Now,
       almost a hundred years later, few in either America or 
       Russia have heard of the ARA. The Soviet government 
       quickly began to erase the memory of American charity. In 
       America, fanatical anti-communism would eclipse this 
       historic cooperation with the Soviet Union. Smith 
       resurrects the American relief mission from obscurity, 
       taking the listener on an unforgettable journey from the 
       heights of human altruism to the depths of human 
       depravity.  The story of the ARA is filled with political 
       intrigue, espionage, the clash of ideologies, violence, 
       adventure, and romance, and features some of the great 
       historical figures of the twentieth century. In a time of 
       cynicism and despair about the world's ability to confront
       international crises, The Russian Job is a riveting 
       account of a cooperative effort unmatched before or since.
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
610 20 American Relief Administration|xHistory. 
650  0 Food relief, American|zSoviet Union. 
650  0 Food relief|zSoviet Union|xHistory. 
650  0 Famines|zSoviet Union|xHistory. 
651  0 Soviet Union|xHistory|yFamine, 1921-1922. 
651  0 Soviet Union|xForeign relations|zUnited States. 
651  0 United States|xForeign relations|zSoviet Union. 
700 1  Soudek, Natasha,|enarrator. 
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