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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

The Great Famine

  • Aired: 04/11/2011
  • 53:12
  • Expires: 04/12/2014
  • Rating: NR
The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a documentary about the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Half a world away, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by Herbert Hoover, director of the American Relief Administration known as the ARA.
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