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Constructive Spirit: Quakers in Revolutionary Russia Author: David McFadden, Claire Gorfinkel, Sergei Nikitin $13.73 |
Constructive Spirit: Quakers in Revolutionary Russia |
Editorial Review:
In the chaotic aftermath of WWI, six American Quaker women went to Russia to help refugees fleeing from Poland. The Quakers stayed on through famine and the early years of the Bolshevik revolution, negotiating uniqe agreements with the American and Soviet governments, providing innovative relief and reconstruction programs while witnessing to their religious convictions.
Constructive Spirit includes their dramatic first-hand narratives. It examines American responses to the emerging communist nation, and issues of service, advocacy and witness that are still relevant today.
232 pages, 35 original photographs mostly dating from the 1920's.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
Plenty of lessons for contemporary international work:
Writing from Moscow to Quaker colleagues at home in the disastrous winter of 1921, Anna J. Haines specified what kind of emergency relief workers were needed to cope with civil war, famine and a paranoid Bolshevik government: "In general the people who will be able to accomplish the most will be those who can win rather than fight their way. One need not be a Communist, but one should be capable of an open mind and a closed mouth. No one of the dreamy parlor-Socialist type should be considered; sensation...
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