Creating Trust and Understanding: Aid to the Soviet Union

Peter Ham
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Peter Ham: University of Leiden

Chapter 4 in Western Doctrines on East-West Trade, 1992, pp 58-69 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the history of Soviet-Western relations, there are two outstanding cases of massive Western economic aid to the USSR. The first case was in the period 1921–23, when crop failures, drought and economic anarchy caused enormous human disaster in Soviet Russia. The American Famine Relief Programs lessened the problems. The second case of economic aid to Russia occurred under the name ‘lend-lease’, during World War II, when the United States shipped enormous amounts of military and civilian commodities to help the Soviet Union in its struggle against Nazi Germany.

Keywords: Soviet Government; Economic Assistance; Russian People; Famine Relief; Political Concession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12610-1_5

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