Black Lebeda : The Russian Famine Diary of Ara Kazan District Supervisor J. Rives Childs, 1921-1923.Black Lebeda J. Rives Language Rive (plural : rives) is a French word meaning "bank" (of a river). Geography Rives is the name of several places: France Rives is the name of 2 communes in France:
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1400 Coleman Avenue, Macon, Georgia 31207 088146015X $40.00 1-478-301-2880 www.mupress.com Black Lebeda: The Russian Famine Diary of ARA Ara or Arrah (both: ŭ`rə), city (1991 pop. 157,082), Bihar state, NE India, on the Son Canal. A major road and rail junction, it is the administrative center for a district that produces grain, sugarcane, and oilseed. Kazan District Supervisor J. River Childs 1921-1923 is the straightforward transcript of the author's experience in Soviet Russia from 1921 to 1923, detailing the inner workings of the American Relief Administration American Relief Administration was an American relief mission to Europe and later Soviet Russia after World War I. Herbert Hoover, future president of the United States, was the program director. and the brutal famine conditions in both the city and the countryside. Of especial es·pe·cial adj. 1. Of special importance or significance; exceptional: an occasion of especial joy. 2. interest are Childs' insights into the Communist Party's workings in local government, and its ruthlessness toward the bourgeois and aristocrats, many of whom came to work for ARA, as well as the personal testimony of Lenin's famous New Economic Policy, actually a partial return to old capitalism. Though colored by Childs' perspective, Black Lebeda is a singularly valuable primary source and firsthand accounting of turbulent changes in the Soviet Union during the interlude between world wars. Paul T. Vogel Reviewer |
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