CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. SELECTED ABBREVIATIONS xi
5. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATION xii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. The Russian Agricultural Bureau in New York and the Soviet-American Seed Exchange 14
8. 2. Soviet Agrarians’ Travels to the United States in the 1920s 36
9. 3. The American Tractor Unit in Soviet Russia, 1921–23 64
10. 4. Harold Ware and the Russian Reconstruction Farms, 1925–27 85
11. 5. M. L. Wilson, Large-Scale Farms, and Knowledge Dissemination 105
12. 6. The Transformation of Agricultural Exchange in the Early 1930s 126
13. Epilogue 147
14. Glossary 153
15. Notes 155
16. Selected Bibliography 193
17. Index 213