The Big Show in Bololand by Bertrand Patenaude Wins Hoover Institution`s 2003 Uncommon Book Award
News Editors/Education Writers
STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2004--The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet
Russia in the Famine of 1921, written by Hoover Research Fellow Bertrand Patenaude, was named by the Hoover Institution
the winner of its 2003 Uncommon Book Award,
The award was announced by Hoover Institution director John Raisian on February 23 during the Hoover
Institution's Board of Overseers Meeting in Washington, D.C.
The Big Show in Bololand is based on materials in the Hoover Institution archives and was published in 2002 by
Stanford University Press. It portrays a crucial American relief expedition to Soviet Russia in 1921 to mitigate the
impact of the famine that killed millions.
Information about the book is available on the Hoover Institution web site at
www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/newsletter/02091/bololand.html and at the Stanford University Press web site at
www.sup.org/cgi-bin/search/book_desc.cgi?book_id=4467%204493.
In November 2003, the book was cowinner of the prestigious 2003 Marshall Shulman Book Prize from the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), in conjunction with the Harriman Institute at Columbia
University.
Bertrand M. Patenaude is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and an expert in Russian and modern European
history. He is researching a study of the 1992 Moscow trial of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, based on
thousands of primary documents collected by the Russian prosecutors and available on microfilm at the Hoover
Institution.
Patenaude also is the author of, with T. Emmons, War, Revolution, and Peace in Russia: The Passages of Frank Golder,
1914-1927 (Hoover Institution Press, 1992); The Russian Revolution and Stalin and Stalinism (Garland Publishing, 1992);
and Soviet Scholarship under Gorbachev (Stanford University Press, 1988).
Patenaude has produced documentary films on Russia and the Soviet Union, serving as associate producer of three films
that were broadcast nationwide. The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) aired his production titled "A Journey to
Russia" in its regularly scheduled Frontline program. PBS also broadcast the Patenaude-produced documentary
"Inside the USSR" in its Inside Story telecast. NBC news broadcast Patenaude's critically acclaimed
hour-long documentary titled "Stalin's Ghost" to a national audience. Patenaude is writing Utopia
Revealed, a documentary film series on the history of communism that has been developed for PBS with the support of the
Hoover Institution.
The W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell Uncommon Book Award is presented annually to an author affiliated
with the Hoover Institution whose work is selected by a panel of Hoover fellows. The award is given for a published book
or other significant work on a public policy issue that, in the panel's determination, meets the highest standards
of scholarship at the Hoover Institution.
--30--NJ/sf* CONTACT: Hoover Institution Stanford University Michele M. Horaney, APR, 650-723-0603 LaNor Maune,
650-723-0603 www.hoover.org
The $10,000 honorarium that accompanies the Uncommon Book Award is underwritten by a gift from Hoover Institution
senior fellow Rita Ricardo-Campbell and the late director emeritus Glenn Campbell. The award recognizes the work of a
Hoover fellow, or other person associated with the Institution, whose writing and research reaches the highest standards
of scholarship on public policy issues.
WORKING PRESS: Bertrand Patenaude may be reached at 650-724-3069.
Copies of the book are available through Hoover Public Affairs, 650-723-0603.
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