Russia's Iron Age (Russia Observed)

Hardback edition of Russia's Iron Age (Russia Observed) by William Henry Chamberlin William Henry Chamerlin's "Russia's Iron Age" was one of the few, if not the only, comprehensive contemporary treatments of the results of Russia's five year plan which ended on December 30, 1932, and the resulting famine which devastated parts of the Soviet Union, particularly Ukrainia, during the winter of 1932-1933 and spring of 1933. The Soviet authorities were largely successful in hiding the famine from the Western world by restricting the access of foriegn correspondents to the famine areas and through the acquiescense of the pro-Russian Revolution intellegensia, along with other means. Published in 1934, Chamberlin's book chronicles how the famine not only coincided with the rise of Hitler in Germany but also contributed to the triumph of Nazism in Germany.