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Changing Communism by Economic Means and the US Grain Factor, 1921–3

In: Contrasting US and German Attitudes to Soviet Trade, 1917–91

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  • Hélène Seppain

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The doctrine that food is power reasserted itself at the end of World War I, after the Germans had been starved into capitulation. Now food power was the sole prerogative of the United States, and food relief played an important role in President Wilson’s ‘crusade for democracy’. It was a ‘positive’ weapon. In the chaos that followed the war, food relief to the starving populations of Europe was seen as a means of preventing the surge of left-wing movements by stabilising governments threatened by Bolshevism.

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  • Hélène Seppain, 1992. "Changing Communism by Economic Means and the US Grain Factor, 1921–3," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Contrasting US and German Attitudes to Soviet Trade, 1917–91, chapter 1, pages 9-29, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12602-6_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12602-6_2
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