Douglas Smith

The gripping human story of how American volunteers fought famine in Bolshevik Russia, saving Lenins revolutionary government from chaos and millions of people from starvation.'Brilliant, disturbing . . . an important story that needed to be told. A fast-moving and most compelling read.' - Helen Rappaport, author of The Race to Save the RomanovsIn 1921, after six years of unrelenting war and revolution, Russia was in ruins. The economy had collapsed, the country was ravaged by disease and starvation claimed the lives of millions. People were so desperate for food that there were reports of cannibalism, reports that were revealed to be horribly accurate.Remarkably, it was a young American aid worker who uncovered the truth and, even more remarkably, it was the US-backed charity that had sent him to Russia that would save Lenins fledgling government by feeding his people.In The Russian Job, acclaimed historian Douglas Smith tells the gripping story of how an American charity fought the Russian famine. Backed by $20 million from the US government, and founded by Herbert Hoover, US Secretary of Commerce, the American Relief Administration recruited more than three hundred young Americans, many of them war veterans. They would oversee the distribution of food, clothing and medical supplies to people throughout Russias vast landmass, saving millions of lives.Vividly written, with a rich cast of characters and a deep understanding of the period, The Russian Job shines a bright light on this strange and shadowy moment in history.

Written by an award-winning writer and the leader of the Yellowstone Wolf Project, this definitive book recounts the years since the wolves’ return to Yellowstone.

Un impresionante y conmovedor estudio sobre los últimos días de la corte del zar y de las primeras decadas de la Revolución rusa.Durante las primeras decadas del siglo xx, en la vorágine provocada por la Revolucion y la transicion a la nueva sociedad sovietica, la elite aristocratica de Rusia fue violentamente perseguida y desposeida de todos sus privilegios y riquezas. Centrandose en la suerte que corrieron dos grandes familias que trataron de sobrevivir y adaptarse al mundo nuevo y hostil de la Union Sovietica los Sheremetev y los Golitzin, que durante siglos habian estado al servicio del zar y del imperio, El ocaso de la aristocracia rusa relata escalofriantes historias personales de sufrimiento y capacidad de resistencia ante el terror y la represion. Convertida en "enemiga de clase", la aristocracia rusa paso de vivir en un esplendor extravagante y una riqueza fastuosa a padecer el acoso de los comisarios bolcheviques, la carcel, el exilio y las ejecuciones sumarias.

Un impresionante y conmovedor estudio sobre los últimos días de la corte del zar y de las primeras décadas de la Revolución rusa. Durante las primeras décadas del siglo xx, en la vorágine provocada

A biografia que mudará para sempre a forma como vemos uma das figuras mais poderosas da Rússia tsarista. Mais de cem anos após seu assassinato, Raspútin continua na imaginação popular como um símbolo