Douglas Smith

The Russian Job

The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Famine

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Produktbeschreibung

Douglas Smith's The Russian Job tells the captivating story of how American volunteers saved millions of people from starvation in Bolshevik Russia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 80080
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9781509882915
• ISBN-10: 150988291X
• Artikelnr.: 58333645

Autorenporträt

Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator and the author of Rasputin and Former People, which was a bestseller in the UK. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, National Geographic, and Netflix. Before becoming a historian, he worked for the U.S. State Department in the Soviet Union and as a Russian affairs analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He lives with his family in Seattle.

Inhaltsangabe

Section
i: Prologue: Mr. Wolfe's Horrifying Discovery Unit
1: 1921 Unit
2: 1922 Unit
3: 1923 Section
ii: A Note on Sources Section
iii: Select Biography Acknowledgements
iv: Acknowledgements Index
v: Index