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Creating Trust and Understanding: Aid to the Soviet Union

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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.

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van Ham, P. (1992). Creating Trust and Understanding: Aid to the Soviet Union. In: Western Doctrines on East-West Trade. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12610-1_5

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