- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Charts
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Acronyms
- 1 The Early Episodes: 1794–1914
- 2 Herbert Hoover
- 3 “But Now Came Famine and Pestilence”
- 4 Between the Wars
- 5 Interlude
- 6 The Birth, Short Life, and Early Death of the UNRRA
- 7 Harry Truman, European Hunger, and the Cold War
- 8 The Marshall Plan Era
- 9 Public Law 480
- 10 The Politics of Food Surpluses
- 11 Kennedy
- 12 Lyndon Johnson’s Food Aid Battles
- 13 LBJ, India, and the Short Tether
- 14 The Nixon Years
- 15 A Global Food Crisis
- 16 The World Food Conference
- 17 Food Aid Under Carter and Reagan
- 18 The Search for Food Security
- 19 The Ethiopia Conundrum
- 20 From Food Aid to Food Assistance: 1990–2014
- 21 Change . . . and Resisting Change
- Bibliography
- Index
Between the Wars
Between the Wars
- Chapter:
- (p.59) 4 Between the Wars
- Source:
- The Political History of American Food Aid
- Author(s):
Barry Riley
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The years after World War I and before World War II saw famine, death, and revolution in many parts of the world. Russia suffered these calamities and worse. Hoover found himself again caught up in a struggle to feed millions of foreign citizens with American food. This time the supplicant was bolshevist Russia, a hated enemy, where famine had already caused the deaths of millions. The U.S. Congress was even more unwilling than before to aid Russia, wondering out loud why the United States should bail out a country that was so intent on falling to pieces. This chapter recounts how Hoover overcame U.S. legislative resistance and organized a major relief program in a country with an extremely anti-American government, where transport hardly worked, and where social organizations were frozen in indecision. The chapter then sums up the vastly changed character of American food aid over the period 1794–1924.
Keywords: Russia, famine, Hoover, Volga drought, bolshevist, Congress, American food aid
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Charts
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Acronyms
- 1 The Early Episodes: 1794–1914
- 2 Herbert Hoover
- 3 “But Now Came Famine and Pestilence”
- 4 Between the Wars
- 5 Interlude
- 6 The Birth, Short Life, and Early Death of the UNRRA
- 7 Harry Truman, European Hunger, and the Cold War
- 8 The Marshall Plan Era
- 9 Public Law 480
- 10 The Politics of Food Surpluses
- 11 Kennedy
- 12 Lyndon Johnson’s Food Aid Battles
- 13 LBJ, India, and the Short Tether
- 14 The Nixon Years
- 15 A Global Food Crisis
- 16 The World Food Conference
- 17 Food Aid Under Carter and Reagan
- 18 The Search for Food Security
- 19 The Ethiopia Conundrum
- 20 From Food Aid to Food Assistance: 1990–2014
- 21 Change . . . and Resisting Change
- Bibliography
- Index
