Walter Bell

Walter Bell was an American relief administrator during the famine in Soviet Russia in 1921. He was responsible for the distribution of corn and wheat seed in the Volga River basin west of the Ural Mountains.

He contracted typhus and almost died, being nearly unconscious for three weeks.

In the end he earned the respect and friendship of millions of Russians and was welcomed by all regional ethnic groups including Russians, Kazaks, and Muslim groups.

External links

• https://www.hoover.org/research/big-show-bololand
• https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2011/marchapril/feature/the-politics-food