- Prologue: Future corpses
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- 1. The battlefield of famine : Russia's crisis and America's response
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- 2. Love and death on the Volga : dramas and distractions at the famine front
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- 3. Say it ain't so, comrade : American adventures in the communist utopia
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- 4. Masters of efficiency : youthful America confronts eternal Russia
- Epilogue: Since then
- Appendix: Riga agreement.
When famine struck Bolshevik Russia in 1921, the US responded with a two-year relief mission that battled starvation and disease, and saved millions of lives. The tale told here is largely derived from the diaries, memoirs and letters of the American participants.
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