Changing Communism by Economic Means and the US Grain Factor, 1921–3

Hélène Seppain

Chapter 1 in Contrasting US and German Attitudes to Soviet Trade, 1917–91, 1992, pp 9-29 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The doctrine that food is power reasserted itself at the end of World War I, after the Germans had been starved into capitulation. Now food power was the sole prerogative of the United States, and food relief played an important role in President Wilson’s ‘crusade for democracy’. It was a ‘positive’ weapon. In the chaos that followed the war, food relief to the starving populations of Europe was seen as a means of preventing the surge of left-wing movements by stabilising governments threatened by Bolshevism.

Keywords: Soviet Government; Interwar Period; Russian People; Soviet Authority; Food Relief (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12602-6_2

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