Seeds of Exchange

Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935 examines the US and Soviet exchange of agricultural knowledge and technology during the interwar period.

Maria Fedorova challenges the perception of the Soviet Union as a passive recipient of American technology and expertise.

She reveals the circular nature of this exchange through official government bureaus, amid anxious farmers in crowded auditoriums, in cramped cars across North Dakota and Montana, and by train over the once fertile steppes of the Volga.

As Seeds of Exchange shows, agricultural modernization was not the exclusive domain of Western countries.