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First published 2019 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

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Copyright © Douglas Smith 2019

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Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint the following material: Excerpts from The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921, by Bertrand Patenaude; copyright © 2002 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. All rights reserved. Used by permission of the publisher, Stanford University Press, sup.org.

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