Hoover Fellow Bertrand Patenaude investigates American aid programs after the Great War in "A Race against Anarchy"

In a new article in the Spring issue of the Hoover Digest, Bertrand Patenaude posits that even after the Great War ended, famine and chaos threatened Europe and Herbert Hoover rescued the continent, reviving trade, rebuildinginfrastructure, and restoring economic order, holding a budding Bolshevism in check. Read the full article here. 

Patenaude is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a lecturer in history and international relations at Stanford University. His most recent book is Defining Moments, published by the Hoover Institution Press in 2019. He is also the author of Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, published by HarperCollins in 2009, and A Wealth of Ideas: Revelations from the Hoover Institution Archives