Constructive Spirit: Quakers in Revolutionary Russia

by David W. McFadden, Claire Gorfinkel

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.

213 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2004

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