Rossiiskaia missiia [Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the S

In 1921, facing one of the worst famines in history, the new Soviet government under Vladimir Lenin invited the American Relief Administration, Herbert HooverÆs 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.