The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How Ame. Smith Hardcover**

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster\nAfter 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\u2014and yet, as Douglas Smith reveals, it has a forgotten but astonishing historical precedent.\nIn 1921, facing one of the worst famines in history, the new Soviet government under Vladimir Lenin invited the American Relief Administration, Herbert Hoover\u2019s 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\n\nRussian Job\nThe Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail track;