Seeds of Exchange
Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Seeds of Exchange examines the US and Soviet exchange of agricultural knowledge and technology during the interwar period. Maria Fedorova challenges the perception of the Soviet Union as a passive recipient of American technology and expertise. She reveals the circular nature of this exchange through official government bureaus, amid anxious farmers in crowded auditoriums, in cramped cars across North Dakota and Montana, and by train over the once fertile steppes of the Volga.
Amid the post–World War I food insecurity, Soviet and American agricultural experts relied on transnational networks, bridging ideological differences. As Soviets traveled across the US agricultural regions and Americans plowed steppes in the southern Urals and the lower Volga, both groups believed that innovative solutions could be found beyond their own national borders. Soviets were avidly interested in American technology and American agricultural experts perceived the Soviet Union to be an ideal setting for experimenting with and refining modern farm systems and organizational practices. As Seeds of Exchange shows, agricultural modernization was not the exclusive domain of Western countries.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Russian Agricultural Bureau in New York and the Soviet-American Seed Exchange
- Chapter 2. Soviet Agrarians’ Travels to the United States in the 1920s
- Chapter 3. The American Tractor Unit in Soviet Russia, 1921–23
- Chapter 4. Harold Ware and the Russian Reconstruction Farms, 1925–27
- Chapter 5. M. L. Wilson, Large-Scale Farms, and Knowledge Dissemination
- Chapter 6. The Transformation of Agricultural Exchange in the Early 1930s
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- A Volume in the NIU Series in Slavic
- Copyright