Maria Fedorova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian Studies at Macalester College. She received her PhD in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the history of agriculture, food insecurity, US-Russia/Soviet relations, and transnational history.

• Introduction1. The Russian Agricultural Bureau in New York and the Soviet-American Agricultural Exchange, 1921-19262. Soviet Agrarians' Travels to the United States, 1921-19283. The American Tractor Unit and the Agricultural Reconstruction ofSoviet Russia, 1921-19234. Harold Ware and the Russian Reconstruction Farms, 19255. M. L. Wilson, Large-Scale Farms, and the Dissemination of Agricultural Knowledge, 1928-19316. The Transformation of Agricultural Exchange in Early the 1930s7. Epilogue

Fedorova's book compellingly illustrates the complexity of the past, where expertise, development, material infrastructures, internal politics, international connections, exchanges, and geopolitical processes intertwined to shape a challenging historical period.

Maria Fedorova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian Studies at Macalester College. She received her PhD in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the history of agriculture, food insecurity, US-Russia/Soviet relations, and transnational history.

• Introduction1. The Russian Agricultural Bureau in New York and the Soviet-American Agricultural Exchange, 1921-19262. Soviet Agrarians' Travels to the United States, 1921-19283. The American Tractor Unit and the Agricultural Reconstruction ofSoviet Russia, 1921-19234. Harold Ware and the Russian Reconstruction Farms, 19255. M. L. Wilson, Large-Scale Farms, and the Dissemination of Agricultural Knowledge, 1928-19316. The Transformation of Agricultural Exchange in Early the 1930s7. Epilogue

Fedorova's book compellingly illustrates the complexity of the past, where expertise, development, material infrastructures, internal politics, international connections, exchanges, and geopolitical processes intertwined to shape a challenging historical period.

Maria Fedorova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian Studies at Macalester College. She received her PhD in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the history of agriculture, food insecurity, US-Russia/Soviet relations, and transnational history.

• Introduction1. The Russian Agricultural Bureau in New York and the Soviet-American Agricultural Exchange, 1921-19262. Soviet Agrarians' Travels to the United States, 1921-19283. The American Tractor Unit and the Agricultural Reconstruction ofSoviet Russia, 1921-19234. Harold Ware and the Russian Reconstruction Farms, 19255. M. L. Wilson, Large-Scale Farms, and the Dissemination of Agricultural Knowledge, 1928-19316. The Transformation of Agricultural Exchange in Early the 1930s7. Epilogue

Fedorova's book compellingly illustrates the complexity of the past, where expertise, development, material infrastructures, internal politics, international connections, exchanges, and geopolitical processes intertwined to shape a challenging historical period.